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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
– Desmond Tutu
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The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
– Billy Graham
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The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.
– Simon Greenleaf
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
– Karl Marx
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The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
– Arlen Specter
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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.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
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The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
– Condoleezza Rice
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
– Randall Terry
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The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.
– Jeffrey Kluger
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Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.
– Sean Durkin
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
– Talib Kweli
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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.
– Anita Roddick
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Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.
– Mitt Romney
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Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.
– Paul Davies
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
– Benjamin Carson
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Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
– Bill Maher
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
– Octavia Butler
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
– Karl Barth
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
– Jonathan Sacks
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Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
– Christopher Hitchens
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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.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
– Samuel Chase
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
– Victoria Jackson
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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
– James Martineau
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
– Richard Dawkins
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
– Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
– Anatole France
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
– George Santayana
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
– James Madison
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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
– Mary Douglas
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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.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
– Alexis Carrel
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
– George Will
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
– Cliff Stearns
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People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
– Carrie-Anne Moss
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Patriotism is the religion of hell.
– James Branch Cabell
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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.
– Jesse Ventura
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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
– Scott Adams
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
– Hans Urs von Balthasar
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No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
– Martin Scorsese
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
– Kate Clinton
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My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.
– Ray Bradbury
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My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
– Rick Wakeman
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My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy, and you can talk about everything.
– Lucy Alibar
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My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
– Christopher Hitchens
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Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.
– Ryan Adams
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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.
– Cliff Stearns
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.
– Quentin Tarantino
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Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'
– Prince
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Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
– Christopher Dawson
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
– Camille Paglia
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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.
– Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
– Karl Barth
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It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
– Roger Ebert
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
– Daniel Berrigan
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It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.
– Vera Farmiga
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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.
– Bertrand Russell
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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.
– Dixy Lee Ray
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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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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
– Karen Armstrong
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
– B. R. Ambedkar
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
– Sri Aurobindo
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In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
– Jonathan Sacks
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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.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.
– Daniel Pipes
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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
– Alexander Hamilton
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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.
– Alan Watts
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In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
– Sergio Leone
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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
– Anna Jameson
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In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
– Carol P. Christ
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
– Chinua Achebe
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In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
– George J. Mitchell
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Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.
– Paul Davies
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If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.
– Madeleine Albright
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
– The Dalai Lama
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
– William Jennings Bryan
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
– Muhammad Iqbal
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I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
– Gene Robinson
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
– Jack Bowman
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I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.
– Jane Seymour
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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.
– Neil Young
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I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.
– Giancarlo Esposito
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I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
– Julianna Baggott
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I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
– Will Smith
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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
– Mary Baker Eddy
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
– Mandy Moore
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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.
– Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.
– Jermaine Jackson
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
– P. J. O'Rourke
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I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
– Colin Powell
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
– Thomas Jefferson
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I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.
– Tony Blair
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I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.
– Sarah Silverman
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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.
– Amber Tamblyn
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
– Barney Frank
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