Religion Quotes
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I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.
Natascha McElhone
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
Karen Armstrong
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
William James
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Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.
Zhang Zhidong
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In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
Norman Maclean
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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
Abraham Lincoln
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Basic religion is the reason we have morals.
Brandon Flowers
The Killers
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Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
D. Elton Trueblood
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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
Ringo Starr
The Beatles
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When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
Karen Armstrong
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Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.
Vinoba Bhave
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
Pankaj Mishra
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
Garrison Keillor
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It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
Yehuda Berg
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
Florentijn Hofman
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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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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
Adam Mansbach
