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Religion

There can be no truce between science and religion. – John B. S. Haldane

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with. – Gael Garcia Bernal

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life. – Lord Melbourne

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion. – Martin Amis

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. – Lafcadio Hearn

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too. – Studs Terkel

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was. – Reese Witherspoon

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. – Arthur Wellesley

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were. – Denise Mina

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns. – Daniel Morgan

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion. – Bill Condon

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. – Henry Cabot Lodge

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER. – Kerry King

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue. – Paul Davies

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. – Morris Raphael Cohen

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it. – Kathie Lee Gifford

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe. – Kathie Lee Gifford

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally – certainly with my secular background – the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. – Yann Martel

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. – Lance Loud