Quotes tagged ‘Religion’

“As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable -- the idea that we simply die and nothing happens. Now, as to what does go on, that is something else. I am religio…”

— Stephen King, web.archive.org

“I know there are people who meet for the first time and fall in love. A lot of times it comes from being stuck in a situation.”

— Amy Grant, medium.com

“Caustic wit is my religion.”

— Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty, Lee Israel, Melissa McCarthy, imdb.com

“Religion is a narrative story that is told, an incredibly successful story. Seeing that God is the most popular protagonist in history. I would never have been satisfied devoting my life to minor narratives as I found in literature, film, music. Those at best can only be enjoyable pastimes.”

— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com

“I believe much of the divisiveness in the world has been caused by religion, even in the time of Spartacus when they worshipped many gods. What is the purpose of religion? After ninety-five years on this planet, I have come to the conclusion that religion should be based on only one thing: helping y…”

— Kirk Douglas, amazon.com

“The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government. They say that violates the prohibition against church and state.”

— Rush Limbaugh, amazon.com

“There is obviously a powerful tradition of reform and a progressive voice that is also religious, of which the greatest modern example is the civil rights movement. But it is the case that I think a sort of estrangement between religion and the political left is maybe starting to turn the other way.…”

— Pete Buttigieg, thehill.com

“What I see right now is a lot of religious voters who are looking for options, because what's happening in Washington and especially in this White House is an affront to any number of religious traditions, including somewhat conservative ones.”

— Pete Buttigieg, thehill.com

“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously…”

— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com

“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”

— H. L. Mencken, amazon.com

“I'm not a practicing Jew. I perfected it.”

— Zach Galifianakis, Scott Aukerman, Himself, Paul Rudd, imdb.com

“He is of mixed religion, therefore he is godless.”

— Steven Knight, Alfie Solomons, Tom Hardy, imdb.com

“'Cause your people, your class, and my religion is quite similar actually, because you just cannot wash it out, right, because it, it come out your mother's tits.”

— Steven Knight, Alfie Solomons, Tom Hardy, imdb.com

“Well, it’s been my experience as a clinician that, the more serious the events that you’re discussing with people, the more the language shifts towards what you might describe as the religious. So, for example, post-traumatic stress disorder—that’s a good example—or cases of serious child abuse or t…”

— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com

“My father was Catholic and my mother was Protestant. And they both agreed that religion was a bit tricky and they should avoid it in its troublesome sense. And so we had a healthy disrespect for what you might call formal religion. But somehow I found a way to still have a faith. Because you know th…”

— Bono, amazon.com

“Religion isn’t so much about telling man that there is one God as about preventing man from thinking that he is God.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com

“The landowners and the bourgeois keep the people in ignorance. They encourage religious superstitions, and with the help of the popes, priests and rabbis they smother all revolutionary instinct. That's why we call religion the opium of the masses.”

— Agnieszka Holland, Salomon Perel jung, Marco Hofschneider, imdb.com

“It doesn’t matter how good you are if you one day find yourself in a school where other religions are talked about, but when Islam is mentioned, we are only talking about terrorists.”

— Ilhan Omar, tampabay.com

“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.”

— Mary Oliver, amazon.com

“Book by book, I formed a new way of seeing the world.”

— Susan Gay Blue, bustle.com