Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
I'm a very religious person.
I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religiou...
At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
There can be no religious discourse which is in conflict with its environment and with the world and therefore, we Muslims need to modify this religious discourse. And this has nothing to do with conviction and with religious beliefs, because those a...
Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.
I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and so...
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.
Freedom is that which comes from knowledge, the freedom that comes from curiosity, the freedom that comes from the times when the first man did not refuse to look into a telescope and discovered other planets, the freedom that comes from those who tr...
To The Veterans of the United States of America Thank you, for the cost you paid for our freedom, thank you for the freedom to live in safety and pursue happiness, for freedom of speech (thus my book), and for all the freedoms that we daily take for ...
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions
Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.
The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
