Religion is the opium of the masses.
We don’t dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can’t win.
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.
Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion, that’s art, that’s life.
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song – layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion’s sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
That means that every human being – without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin – possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment.
There’s naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn’t pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion – they’re two words which are both… different. In spelling.
There are broad freedoms in Israel. In fact, Israel’s Declaration of Independence grants all Israel’s inhabitants equality of social and political rights irrespective of religion, race or gender.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It’s not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
I’m a practicing Christian – and I’m going to keep practicing till I get it right – but I don’t feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
Muslims in France should be able to practice their religion freely and safely.
My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it’s possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.
