We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
— Theodore C. Sorensen
In some very real way, rock 'n' roll is like a religion to me.
— Terence Trent D'Arby
My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
— Taylor Swift
I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
— Tawakkol Karman
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
— Taslima Nasrin
The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.
— Tariq Ali
Although my family attended the same church as everyone in our town, our religion was not the same. I could stand with my family or with the gentiles... but there was no foothold in between.
— Tara Westover
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
— Talib Kweli
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
— T. S. Eliot
The 'Crossfire' demographic is all-encompassing. Age, gender, religion, culture... it doesn't matter.
— Sylvia Day
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
— Swami Vivekananda
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
— Swami Sivananda
The fight against terrorism is not a confrontation against any religion.
— Sushma Swaraj
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.
— Susan Powter
As for my religion, I worship Jesus.
— Sun Yat-sen
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
— Studs Terkel
I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race.
— The Weeknd
It is my firm belief that the highest value must be placed on the virtue of each individual, regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
— Tennys Sandgren
I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
— Taylor Negron
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.
— Tariq Ramadan
There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
I don't believe in the concept of religion.
— Tanushree Dutta
When I was little, my parents belonged to a cult, a big Buddhist sect called Soka Gakkai. I didn't have any particular sentiment for or against religion, but I did feel bad about my parents' poverty and how it made them depend on that cult.
— Takashi Murakami
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
— Sydney Smith
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Just as sport can, art has the capacity to cross so many boundaries like education, race and religion.
— Susie Wolff
Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.
We need a new order of ministers to stand in pulpits. It's not enough to sing and praise God in worship services. Any religion that doesn't encourage us to work together to end the needless suffering all around us is godless.
— Susan L. Taylor
To uphold religious tolerance, it is very wise that an adherent of a religion should not do something forbidden in another religion in front of the adherent of the latter.
— Suharto
I think I'd really like to live in Israel. Even for someone like myself who is not that into religion, you go to Israel, and it's breathtaking in a lot of ways.
— Sue Bird
There's no religion but sex and music.
— Sting
I don't think you need religion.
— Terry Jones
Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
— Teju Cole
I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
— Taylor Kitsch
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 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
I am a believer in god, but I have not restricted myself to one religion. I have experienced many religions.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
— T-Pain
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
— Sydney Schanberg
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Just as 'Islam' literally means 'peace,' none of the 99 names of Allah mean violence. Similarly, every religion in the world stands for peace, compassion, and brotherhood.
There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.
It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.
— Susan Howatch
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
— Sufjan Stevens
It has been established that most Indians have the same DNA profile irrespective of caste, religion, or region. Yet we find our text books talking about India being multiethnic.
— Subramanian Swamy
