Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia that set records for mass slaughter.
— Nicholas Kristof
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
— Neil Young
Live shows were always religion for us. We never played a show - whether it was in front of 15 people or 15,000 - where it wasn't everything we had that night.
— Neil Peart
What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
In our Constitution, our bedrock principle, you know - indeed, what the nation was founded on - is an idea of freedom of religion: that we don't single out people because of their religion.
— Neal Katyal
Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
— Nazanin Boniadi
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
— Nathan Myhrvold
You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
— Natalie Portman
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Being good or evil has nothing to do with religion.
— Naseeruddin Shah
So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
— Narendra Modi
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
— Naomie Harris
In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.
— Najib Razak
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
— Naguib Mahfouz
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
— Naftali Bennett
Religion is a very delicate subject in Lebanon. You have to know how to say things in a very delicate way in order to be accepted.
— Nadine Labaki
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.
— Neil Turok
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
— Neale Donald Walsch
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
— Neal Boortz
Nation states that are used to imposing capital controls will face a quandary: ban cryptocurrencies and live in the technology dustbin; enable them, and this virus - this religion, this protocol - will enable the free flow of money and language, along with packets, around the globe.
— Naval Ravikant
I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
— Natascha McElhone
Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
In my life, my religion comes first, and obviously, my family comes second.
— Naseem Hamed
All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
I suppose the idea about all Orthodox religion is that it's a kind of submission, obedience.
— Naomi Alderman
We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.
— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
For me, it’s important to instil in my children that they can do whatever they like, that no matter what their religion and colour, they can achieve what they want through hard work.
— Nadiya Hussain
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.
— Myles Munroe
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.
— Nelson A. Miles
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
— Neil Postman
Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
— Nat Turner
Hindi cinema has only one religion, and that's money.
I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.
We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
We all are Indians, and that should be our only religion. What is the need to be called a Hindu, Muslim, or Christian? Does anybody have any religion or caste at the time of birth?
— Nana Patekar
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.
When I watch a TV show I wouldn’t notice if someone was Muslim or wearing a hijab. It’s nice to be on a show where your skin colour or religion is incidental.
