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Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
– Mary Garden
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Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
– Bill Condon
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Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
– Mary Douglas
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Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
– Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.
– Josh McDowell
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It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
– Asghar Farhadi
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It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
– Madeleine Albright
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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.
– Barack Obama
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It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.
– Pete Sampras
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It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
– Godfrey Reggio
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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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It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
– Toni Morrison
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
– Richard Dawkins
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It was part of your religion to hate the British.
– Rebecca Harding Davis
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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.
– Barack Obama
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It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.
– Paul Nurse
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It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
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It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.
– James Lovelock
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It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
– H. P. Blavatsky
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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
– Mary Douglas
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It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.
– Laurence Housman
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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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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
– Thomas Jefferson
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
– Ramakrishna
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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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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.
– Herbert Read
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It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
– Norma McCorvey
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It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
– John Shelby Spong
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Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
– Pat Robertson
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
– Youssou N'Dour
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
– Lafcadio Hearn
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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.
– Thomas Paine
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
– Wallace Stevens
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
– Sri Aurobindo
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Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
– Roy Moore
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
– Muhammad Iqbal
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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
– Jane Smiley
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In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
– Cat Stevens
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In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
– Kofi Annan
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In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
– Paul Davies
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In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
– Hillary Clinton
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In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
– Carol P. Christ
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In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
– David Herbert Donald
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In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
– Charles Eastman
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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
– Johan Huizinga
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In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
– Paul Harris
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
– Rupert Sheldrake
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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.
– William Robertson 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.
– William Robertson Smith
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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
– Dennis Prager
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If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.
– Denise Mina
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
– Naguib Mahfouz
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
– Brian Eno
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If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
– Brian Eno
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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!
– Blaise Pascal
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If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
– Paul Harris
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
– H. P. Lovecraft
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If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
– Ziggy Marley
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
– Margaret Atwood
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
– Salman Rushdie
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If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'
– Tom Cruise
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If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
– Martin Amis
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If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
– Tom Brokaw
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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.
– Charles Spurgeon
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
– Chinua Achebe
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I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
– Julian Clary
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I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
– Tom Perrotta
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I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.
– Daniel Radcliffe
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
– T-Pain
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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.
– Howard Stern
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
– Victor Hugo
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I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.
– Louise Mensch
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I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.
– Katy Perry
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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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I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.
– Angie Harmon
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I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.
– Sheryl Lee
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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
– Brian Eno
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I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
– James Lovelock
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
– Youssou N'Dour
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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.
– Donald Cargill
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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.
– Neale Donald Walsch
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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
– Aaron Neville
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I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
– Laurence Housman
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
– Salman Rushdie
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I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
– Mary Augusta Ward
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
– Barbara Kingsolver
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
– Eddie Izzard
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I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.
– Lionel Richie
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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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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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I think there's a difference between God and religion.
– Sinead O'Connor
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I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.
– Kerry King
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I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.
– Nikki Haley
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I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
– Youssou N'Dour
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I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.
– Angie Stone
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I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
– Gene Robinson
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I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
– Dean Koontz
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