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Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.
– Azar Nafisi
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Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
– Colin Hanks
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
– Hans Kung
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Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
– Cyril Cusack
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Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?
– Jonathan Sacks
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
– Studs Terkel
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Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
– Billy Sunday
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
– B. R. Ambedkar
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
– Frances Wright
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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.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
– Daniel Radcliffe
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
– Allen Tate
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
– Henri Bergson
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
– Immanuel Kant
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
– Karl Marx
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Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
– John Henrik Clarke
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
– Karl Marx
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
– Alfred North Whitehead
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Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.
– Huston Smith
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Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'
– Tommy Chong
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
– Alan Watts
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Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
– Christopher Hitchens
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Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
– Kary Mullis
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Religion is just mind control.
– George Carlin
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Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.
– Julian Casablancas
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Religion is induced insanity.
– Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
– Josh Gad
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Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
– Christopher Hitchens
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
– Bonnie Raitt
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
– Neal Boortz
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Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
– Tom T. Hall
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Religion is a mixed blessing.
– John Shelby Spong
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
– Karen Armstrong
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Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
– Ziggy Marley
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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
– John Updike
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Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.
– Larry David
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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
– Edward Bond
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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.
– William Robertson Smith
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Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
– Jonathan Sacks
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
– Bono
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Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
– Pat Buckley
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
– Eddie Izzard
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Real religion is no religion at all.
– Lauryn Hill
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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
– E. Stanley Jones
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Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
– Danny Masterson
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Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
– Al Goldstein
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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
– Erykah Badu
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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.
– Thomas Paine
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
– Rachel Weisz
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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.
– Charles De Secondat
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People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.
– Zachary Levi
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Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
– Tim Bishop
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Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.
– William Pennington
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Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
– Ruth St. Denis
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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.
– Robert Shea
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One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
– Paul Harris
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One person's religion is another person's cult.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
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One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
– Richard Dawkins
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One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.
– Ray Comfort
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One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
– Pam Grier
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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.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
– Thomas Paine
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
– Karen Armstrong
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Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
– Neale Donald Walsch
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No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.
– George Whitefield
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
– Felix Adler
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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
– Jeremy Bentham
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
– George Bernard Shaw
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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.
– Walter Pater
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
– Vaclav Klaus
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Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
– Linda Chavez
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Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
– Sri Chinmoy
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
– Bill Keller
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My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.
– Tom T. Hall
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
– Mandy Patinkin
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My religion lies in my composition.
– John Philip Sousa
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
– Jack Kevorkian
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My political ideas and things like that, even my religion, I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing, and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that, like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world, I'm just an entertainer.
– Donny Osmond
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My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
– Art Linkletter
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My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
– Steven Seagal
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My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
– Lionel Blue
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My life was changed in one breath from God.
– Donna Summer
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My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
– Marilyn Manson
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Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.
– Trey Parker
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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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More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.
– Charles Eastman
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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
– Swami Sivananda
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Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
– Paul Bert
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Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
– Richard Dawkins
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
– Hal Holbrook
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
– Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
– David Mamet
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Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.
– Dennis Prager
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