Religion Quotes

Närrisch, dass jeder in seinem Falle Seine besondere Meinung preist! Wenn Islam Gott ergeben heißt, Im Islam leben und sterben wir alle!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

Gary Johnson

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

Hugo Black

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

Hutton Gibson

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sen...

William Robertson Smith

I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what lit...

Ian Frazier

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Julian Casablancas

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Josh McDowell

I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it.

Kirk Douglas

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

Kathe Kollwitz

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

Lawrence M. Krauss

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Robert A. Heinlein

The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of poli...

Simon Schama

In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the e...

Simon Schama

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Teju Cole

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Voltaire

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

Walter Jon Williams

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

John Ruskin

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

John Ruskin

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel