We are all born free from all religious affiliations and…

“Atheism is the default position in any scientific inquiry, just as a-quarkism or a-neutrinoism was. That is, any entity has to earn its admission…

— Tim Maudlin

I haven't found music comforting since the '80s, but it doesn't mean it's not good - it just doesn't work for me. It's shocking…

— Viv Albertine

“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON”

— Richard Dawkins

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious…

— Lionel Trilling

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home…

— Erica Brown

To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time--they need…

— Stanley Greenspan

History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will…

— John F. Kennedy

“When only one party makes a profit that's robbery when all parties make profit that's business.”

— Amit Kalantri

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

— John Podhoretz

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.

— Leonard Cohen

Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer…

— Charles D. Hayes

The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the…

— Olara Otunnu

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti