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Jack Dee on religion
Author: Jack Dee“I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn’t.” -Jack Dee
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Criss Angel on religion
Author: Criss Angel“I like to say magic is the world’s second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.” -Criss Angel
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Thomas More on religion
Author: Thomas More“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.” -Thomas More
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Andrew Sullivan on religion
Author: Andrew Sullivan“How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?” -Andrew Sullivan
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Michelle Bachelet on religion
Author: Michelle Bachelet“Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It’s not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.” -Michelle Bachelet
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Matthew Fox on religion
Author: Matthew Fox“I am a Westerner. We’re not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it’s like a mirror, saying, hey, can’t you see what’s here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?” -Matthew Fox
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Lance Bass on religion
Author: Lance Bass“It doesn’t matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.” -Lance Bass
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Wendell Phillips on religion
Author: Wendell Phillips“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.” -Wendell Phillips
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Franz Liszt on religion
Author: Franz Liszt“Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ’s religion illuminates with His divine light.” -Franz Liszt
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Geraldine Brooks on religion
Author: Geraldine Brooks“You can’t write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I’m very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.” -Geraldine Brooks
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Mary Douglas on religion
Author: Mary Douglas“It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.” -Mary Douglas
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John B. S. Haldane on religion
Author: John B. S. Haldane“There can be no truce between science and religion.” -John B. S. Haldane
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Prince on religion
Author: Prince“It’s fun being in Islamic countries, to know there’s only one religion. There’s order. You wear a burqa. There’s no choice. People are happy with that.” -Prince
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Walter Pater on religion
Author: Walter Pater“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.” -Walter Pater
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ASAP Rocky on religion
Author: ASAP Rocky“There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don’t think my generation wants that. That’s how it used to be.” -ASAP Rocky
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Polly Toynbee on religion
Author: Polly Toynbee“There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.” -Polly Toynbee
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Ian MacKaye on religion
Author: Ian MacKaye“I’m not a religious person, and I’m not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.” -Ian MacKaye
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Gary Ross on religion
Author: Gary Ross“Most modern science fiction went to school on ‘Dune.’ Even ‘Harry Potter’ with its ‘boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny’ shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.” -Gary Ross
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Al Goldstein on religion
Author: Al Goldstein“Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.” -Al Goldstein
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Robert Griffin III on religion
Author: Robert Griffin III“There’s a couple things you don’t talk about in life, and that’s race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don’t talk about politics at all.” -Robert Griffin III
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Peter Jennings on religion
Author: Peter Jennings“I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.” -Peter Jennings
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Tom Wolfe on religion
Author: Tom Wolfe“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.” -Tom Wolfe
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Huston Smith on religion
Author: Huston Smith“It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.” -Huston Smith
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Charles de Secondat on religion
Author: Charles de Secondat“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.” -Charles de Secondat
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Kirstie Alley on religion
Author: Kirstie Alley“Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.” -Kirstie Alley