I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ...… — Hubert Harrison Copy Share Image
And the angel answered her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you;… — Bible Copy Share Image
I've jokingly said that everything I'm doing now is filling up the hours before I die, but I do feel that slightly.… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of… — Adam Rickitt Copy Share Image
I don't want to say I drank the Kool-Aid because I'm definitely not religious and I don't buy into any religion at… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
The soul that has come to know God fully no longer desires anything else, nor does it attach itself to anything on… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds,… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't want to force anyone to believe in God. I just pray and hope they have a single experience of his… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Very devoted religious people are so extroverted, but at the same time, they're so repressed sexually and so conservative. I've never been… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
A person repents when he comes to the place where he discovers that the will of God is the government of his… — Paris Reidhead Copy Share Image
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
America is a very religious nation. Not a mono-religious nation because there are many different strands of belief, but there's something about… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing… — Ira Glasser Copy Share Image
When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot.… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
“I’d never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, in the same… — John Green Copy Share Image
Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I… — Augustus Washington Copy Share Image
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some… — Sophia Lyon Fahs Copy Share Image
A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp…moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not… — Wolfgang Smith Copy Share Image
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that,… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image