Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.
As for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.
A dog is more committed than a religious person; the former does whatever the owner says, while the latter does what someone else told someone else.
You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.
The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.
I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship...
From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man—the function of his reasoning mind.
It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.
The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.
In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years...
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned.
