Quotes with religion

Quotes 321 till 340 of 348.

  • Edgar Quinet What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • William Blake What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Buddy Hackett What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Oscar Wilde What of Art?
    - It is a malady.
    Love?
    - An Illusion.
    Religion?
    - The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    You are a sceptic.
    - Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    What are you?
    - To define is to limit.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Camille Paglia When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anais Nin When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Butch Trucks When we started, it was so intense: it was like a religion. And when you played with Duane Allman, you either gave it your all or you got out.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Butch Trucks When we're playing, when we're really, really going... you're just in the moment. You're not thinking about yesterday, tomorrow, or anything else. The brain gets out of the way. Your body just does what it knows how to do, and it's just... it's like a religion.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Henry Miller Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Aldous Huxley Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
    Drysdale - The Protoplasmic Theory of Life (1874)
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bono Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually.
    CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Steven Weinberg With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
    Steven Weinberg
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics (1933 - 2021)
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  • Bill Nye You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Edgar Allan Poe A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • John Hay All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
    John Hay
    American politician (1838 - 1905)
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