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Simplicity is a grand illusion wrapped in the complexities of intent, where genuine clarity distilled from tumult brings minds both liberation and disaffection.
Author:
Elise Hartman
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True social harmony is an intricate polygon, requiring every corner and edge to exist in exquisite balance, enabling greatness to emerge from our varied lines of experience.
Author:
Aria timelyne
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In the whisper of the wind and the rhythm of puddles forming--that's where life's structured chaos hides, waiting for a mindful observer to decode its beauty.
Author:
Aemelia Crafton
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Life's obstacles are God's stepping stones to greatness.
Author:
Sophia Martinez
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Faith is not believing that God can; it's knowing that He will.
Author:
Samantha Moore
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The search for religion is the starting point of thought.
Author:
Xu Zhimo
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
Author:
Neil Young
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Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
Author:
Brigham Young
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
Author:
Francis Wright
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Author:
Frances Wright
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But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.
Author:
Link Wray
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Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
Author:
Herman Wouk
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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
Author:
John Woolman
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The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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A cult is a religion with no political power.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
Author:
Tony Wilson
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
Author:
E. Wilson
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
Author:
E. Wilson
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
Author:
Walter Williams
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God requireth not a uniformity of religion.
Author:
Roger Williams
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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
Author:
Kit Williams
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Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
Author:
Benjamin Whorf
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
Author:
Theodore White
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Author:
Benjamin Whichcote
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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Author:
Franz Werfel
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Author:
Arthur Wellesley
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Author:
Arthur Wellesley
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In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.
Author:
James Welch
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I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
Author:
Steven Weinberg
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Author:
Noah Webster
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
Author:
Noah Webster
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It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
Author:
Noah Webster
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The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.
Author:
Noah Webster
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
Author:
Beatrice Webb
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
Author:
Warren Weaver
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Author:
Alan Watts
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Author:
George Washington
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Author:
Booker Washington
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Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Author:
Lemuel Washburn
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I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
Author:
Sela Ward
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
Author:
Abdurrahman Wahid
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Author:
Voltaire
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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Author:
Voltaire
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Author:
Voltaire
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Author:
Voltaire
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These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
Author:
Ville Valo
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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
Author:
John Updike
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The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
Author:
Bjorn Ulvaeus
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I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.
Author:
Bjorn Ulvaeus
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A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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Yoga is not a religion to me.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Author:
Alan Turing
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Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Author:
Sojourner Truth
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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Author:
Arnold Toynbee
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Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Author:
Paul Tournier
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I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
Author:
Rip Torn
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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
Author:
Uma Thurman
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As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
Author:
Kerry Thornley
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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Author:
Kerry Thornley
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Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
Author:
Kerry Thornley
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
Author:
Randall Terry
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
Author:
Randall Terry
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The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
Author:
Randall Terry
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
Author:
Studs Terkel
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A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
Author:
Allen Tate
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We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Author:
Serj Tankian
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We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Author:
Serj Tankian
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I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
Author:
Tom Tancredo
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I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.
Author:
Amber Tamblyn
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I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
Author:
Amber Tamblyn
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Author:
Thomas Szasz
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
Author:
Andrew Sullivan
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The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
Author:
David Strauss
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I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
Author:
J. Straczynski
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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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There's no religion but sex and music.
Author:
Sting
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
Author:
John Stevens
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The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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They have hijacked my religion.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Author:
Howard Stern
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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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I'm not really into religion.
Author:
Harry Stanton
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
Author:
John Spong
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
Author:
Stephen Spender
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God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
Author:
Robert South
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My religion lies in my composition.
Author:
John Sousa
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We have convinced over one billlion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
Author:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
Author:
Georg Solti
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The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.
Author:
Raymond Sokolov
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Author:
Ralph Sockman
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Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
Author:
William Smith
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Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
Author:
William Smith
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In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
Author:
William Smith
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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
Author:
William Smith
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
Author:
William Smith
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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
Author:
William Smith
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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
Author:
William Smith
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
Author:
William Smith
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The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Author:
Lamar Smith
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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
Author:
Huston Smith
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Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Author:
Isaac Singer
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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
Author:
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
Author:
Hu Shih
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Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
Author:
Michael Shermer
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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.
Author:
Bruce Shelley
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To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
Author:
Robert Shea
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Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.
Author:
Robert Shea
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
Author:
George Shaw
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Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
Author:
Jeanne Shaheen
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There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
Author:
Anna Sewell
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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Author:
Walter Scott
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I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.
Author:
Hazel Scott
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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
Author:
Martin Scorsese
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No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
Author:
Mike Schmidt
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The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Author:
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Author:
Philip Schaff
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
Author:
George Santayana
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Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Author:
George Santayana
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
Author:
George Santayana
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Author:
Juan Samaranch
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I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.
Author:
Leverett Saltonstall
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Author:
Carl Sagan
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The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.
Author:
Jim Ryun
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Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.
Author:
Henry Russell
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Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.
Author:
Henry Russell
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
Author:
John Ruskin
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Author:
John Ruskin
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Author:
John Ruskin
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Author:
Robert Runcie
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
Author:
Ja Rule
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
Author:
Ja Rule
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Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
Author:
Ja Rule
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
Author:
Ja Rule
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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
Author:
Alfred Rosenberg
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It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
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Franklin Roosevelt
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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
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Anita Roddick
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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
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Tom Robbins
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I broke with my religion in college.
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Anne Rice
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Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
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Ernest Renan
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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
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Lou Reed
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And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
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Bernice Reagon
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Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.
Author:
Bernice Reagon
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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
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Ronald Reagan
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
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William Reade
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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
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Herbert Read
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It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
Author:
Herbert Read
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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
Author:
Herbert Read
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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
Author:
Herbert Read
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It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.
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Dixie Ray
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
Author:
Feisal Rauf
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
Author:
Feisal Rauf
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
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Joseph Ratzinger
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For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
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John Ransom
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The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
Author:
James Randi
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I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
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Dee Ramone
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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Ramakrishna
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
Author:
Bonnie Raitt
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The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
Author:
Robert Rainy
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I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.
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Akbar Rafsanjani
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Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.
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Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
Author:
Sally Quinn
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
Author:
Edgar Quinet
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I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
Author:
Charley Pride
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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
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Dennis Prager
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I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.
Author:
Susan Powter
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There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.
Author:
Susan Powter
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
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Ezra Pound
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Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
Author:
Dennis Potter
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Author:
Beatrix Potter
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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
Author:
Natalie Portman
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Wendell Phillips
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There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.
Author:
Tim Pawlenty
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Pope Paul II
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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Walter Pater
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
Author:
Orhan Pamuk
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Thomas Paine
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
Author:
Robert Owen
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To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.
Author:
Rudolf Otto
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But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Author:
Rudolf Otto
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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
Author:
George Orwell
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The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
Author:
John Orr
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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Origen
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If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
Author:
Origen
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Author:
Madalyn O'Hair
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Religion is induced insanity.
Author:
Madalyn O'Hair
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The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
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Sandra O'Connor
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There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
Author:
Sean O'Casey
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
Author:
Conor O'Brien
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Author:
Barack Obama
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
Author:
Barack Obama
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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.
Author:
Paul Nurse
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Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
Author:
Emil Nolde
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Author:
Anais Nin
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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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John Newman
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Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
Author:
Michael Newdow
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I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
Author:
Michael Newdow
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This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).
Author:
Michael Newdow
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The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
Author:
Michael Newdow
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Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
Author:
Richard Neuhaus
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Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Author:
Richard Neuhaus
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But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
Author:
Liam Neeson
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
Author:
Taslima Nasrin
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
Author:
Taslima Nasrin
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
Author:
Taslima Nasrin
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
Author:
Mohammed Naguib
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.
Author:
Len Murray
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Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Author:
Frank Murphy
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The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
Author:
Lewis Mumford
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
Author:
Kary Mullis
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Author:
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Author:
Malcolm Muggeridge
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
Author:
Van Morrison
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It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
Author:
Toni Morrison
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Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Author:
Gouverneur Morris
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Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
Author:
Daniel Morgan
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
Author:
Thomas More
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Author:
Hannah More
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Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
Author:
Thurston Moore
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Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
Author:
Roy Moore
