“Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.”
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“When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.”
“The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.”
“In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.”
“I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.”
“I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.”
“Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.”
“Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.”
“History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.”
“It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.”
“The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.”
“I do engineering, not religion.”
“Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.”
“I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.”
“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”
“My religion lies in my composition.”
“In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.”
“The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.”
“The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.”
“I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.”
“When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.”
“There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.”
“Wars have always started over religion.”
“I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.”