Religious Quotes - Page 36

• Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

  Christopher Hitchens

  Roots, Evil, Way

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.336, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that every woman should have the right to all forms of preventive health care, including contraception. The other is that we need to respect the religious liberties which are the cornerstone of American life.

  Jacob Lew

  Should Have, Usa, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious. ... I'm really interested in those things that are more far-reaching than culture, nationality, race, religion.

  Emma Watson

  Spiritual, Race, Culture

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

  David Cronenberg

  Anti Religious

  "Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him". Defamer Interview, gawker.com. September 02, 2008.

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• Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.

  Ann Bridge

  Taken, Sublime, Mountain

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• Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.

  Edd Doerr

  Light, Government, Church

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• Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

  Boris Sidis

  Agency, Evil, Causes

  Boris Sidis (1916). “The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases”

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• Education ought everywhere to be religious education. At the same time, parents are farther bound to employ no instructors who will not educate their children religiously. To commit our children to the care of irreligious persons, is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Education, Children, Parent

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• It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this, and in most of them the clergy are quite ready to lay down the law in other fields too.

  Anne Roe

  Thinking, Law, Church

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• The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spiritual, Men, People

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• Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

  Jennifer Stone

  Jobs, Wings, Giving

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• Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.

  Russell Brand

  Psychosis, Government, Feelings

  "Wild emotions are all very well, Russell Brand, but then what?" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2013.

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• There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas.

  Russell Simmons

  Ideas, Kind, Gender

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.

  Pat Buchanan

  Children, Book, School

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• I am also really into religious artifacts.

  Kathleen Robertson

  Artifacts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Moral, Embryos

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• Through my Faith-Based and Community Initiative, my Administration continues to encourage the essential work of faith-based and community organizations. Governments can and should support effective social services, including those provided by religious people and organizations. When government gives that support, it is important that faith-based institutions not be forced to change their religious character.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Character, Government

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• Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work. For instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie.

  Patricia Rozema

  Book, People, Justice

  "Weird Sex & Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena". Book by Katherine Monk, 2001.

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• The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

  John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

  Political, Church, Unions

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• [On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.

  Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

  Sex, Judging, Wicked

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• Dan Moldea, the lead investigator for Larry Flynt's ongoing quest to uncover sexual indiscretions of Republican congressional members, has now admitted he was hired by the law firm defending President Clinton.

  Jerry Falwell

  Humor, Law, President

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• My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.

  John Mellencamp

  Sunday, Grandmother, Boys

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• I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status.

  Jerry Falwell

  Believe, Humor, Community

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• We will allow private and religious groups to compete to provide services in every federal, state and local social program.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Groups

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• And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad.

  Jerry Falwell

  Baby, Humor, School

  "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson, September 13, 2001.

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