“I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.”
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“In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.”
“Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.”
“What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.”
“To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.”
“Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.”
“I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.”
“And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.”
“I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.”
“Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.”
“My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.”
“I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.”
“Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.”
“People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.”
“That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.”
“What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.”
“And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.”
“Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.”
“Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.”
“All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.”
“Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.”
“Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.”
“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.”
“It was part of your religion to hate the British.”