Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

I was sad Jon Ronson who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4 took against me.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that but I don't respect nor do I enjoy an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

The first few games that we played against some of the teams the young guys you know want a stick sign or photo sign and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

Against my will in the course of my travels the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before but we have no responsibility toward them.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature the sentiment of the heartless world as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People afraid to oppose those fundamentalists shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion which is the source of fundamentalism.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps you lift heavy weight as heavy as you can handle and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture religion or tradition propagates.

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion I would say I was against it.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.