Quotes of: Freedom-of-religion Keyword

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Walter Jon Williams

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Dave Davies

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Emile Durkheim

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Epictetus

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Eckhart Tolle

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Hal Holbrook

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

Jack Kevorkian

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

Jesse Ventura

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

Noah Webster

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

Salman Rushdie

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Avicenna

If there is destruction of hope, there is freedom from gods [ ]; if there is destruction of fear, there is freedom from spirits [ , demons].

Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition

What is most important is the deeply felt conviction that freedom is like oxygen, and I hope The Long Walk is a reminder that when lost, freedom is difficult to regain.

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

Paul Krugman

They support freedom for themselves and slavery for everyone else, and they use the freedom of the market to disguise this fact. Economic coercion is just a different form of force, which they couple with the fraud of calling it freedom. I was like t...

Robert Peate

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There�...

Noam Chomsky

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty ...

Barack Obama

I advise everyone to choose a religion based upon the beauty that the religion has brought to the world. There is much to be said about every religion, there is much evil in history written about every religion, and at the end of the day, you're only...

C. JoyBell C.

Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.

Ron Serino

The freedom I treasure most is the freedom to get up and leave.

Marty Rubin

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Archibald MacLeish