Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that’s got true religion, several of them. – Hal Holbrook
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious. – Harriet Ann Jacobs
I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career. – Greg Graffin
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. – Hillary Clinton
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. – Hannah More
I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that. – Greg Graffin
I have always respected everyone’s religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people. – Hazel Scott
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. – Herbert Read
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can’t do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion. – Howard Fast
I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don’t agree with organized religion in that respect. – Hunter Parrish
When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can’t let your own faith be the barometer. – Greg Brenneman
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner. – Giles Foden
I’ve written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution. – Greg Graffin
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we’ve always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism. – Greg Graffin
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. – Hans Kung
I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations. – Georgi Parvanov
I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. – Giovanni Ribisi
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks. – Hanya Yanagihara
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. – Georges Bizet
It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention. – Hans Jonas
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong. – Grover Norquist
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy? – Harriet Martineau
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion. – Harvey Milk
