Basically fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Religion theme aside most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

I almost got a psychology degree I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion epistomology and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

The artist himself may not think he is religious but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

To have dominion by religion is to have dominion over men's souls thus over their very spiritual life and to use the Divine things which are in their religion as the means.

I travel around the world experiencing every language every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile because their lives are so difficult.

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

Wars have always started over religion.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others we convince ourselves.

When you're in prison you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement in the overwhelming virtue of diversity these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

My religion lies in my composition.

I'm still a person a human being no matter what religion I am.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

If there is a God atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned one God the God I adhere to is in charge of all of them.

Art and Religion are then two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

I do engineering not religion.