“The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.”
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“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”
“My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.”
“It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.”
“My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.”
“Religion is induced insanity.”
“Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.”
“Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.”
“No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.”
“Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!”
“Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.”
“I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.”
“Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.”
“What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!”
“Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.”
“My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.”
“Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.”
“No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
“I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.”
“I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.”
“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.”
“It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.”
“We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.”
“I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.”