Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: religion

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

No migrant of any religion has a constitutional right to come to the United States.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election.

Religion is such a path with people.

Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah, there's this big, giant universe, and it's expanding, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just here, just 'cuz. Just 'cuz.' That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.

I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.

It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture.

Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom.

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

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.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

I know too much about religion to be religious, so to speak, and I am not that stupid, either.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

Toleration is the best religion.

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'

We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

I wasn't raised a Catholic, but Yolanthe was, and I wanted to get more involved in her religion.

Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.

If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.

If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.

Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.