Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
I think very few people realize how much the separation of church and state has to do with the fact that Americans… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The people are the source of governmental power. Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
Ladies, just know that when you grow your hair too long, you got about two inches difference between really hot, sexy supermodel… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“And if the central religious image was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a… — Eisler Riane Copy Share Image
The United States didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created the United States of America. It's the reason we are here today.… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I'm celibate. It's not that I'm a religious or moral person or anything, it's just, if you aren't ****ing Thom Yorke, what's… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Be specific in your prayers. Carefully craft what you speak. What you say should be in accordance with the word of God… — Dr. Glen A. Staples Copy Share Image
I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I just pray. And I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since… — Lynsey Addario Copy Share Image
Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. ISIS cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
Everyone we meet is a hero waiting to happen. When Jesus saw people, He envisioned their potential. No respecter of persons, He… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine,… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image