One should not encourage division on the basis of religion, region, caste, or creed if one wants India to truly rise as one of the greatest nations of the world.
— Smriti Irani
I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.
— Simon Schama
There is a religion around 'Star Wars' that is different than even the fanaticism around comic books and other media.
— Simon Kinberg
The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.
— Simon Greenleaf
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
My religion means so much to me and to my career. It helps me so much.
— Shkodran Mustafi
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
— Shirin Ebadi
I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.
— Sheryl Lee
Terrorists have no religion, belief, or race. Having been a target of a number of terrorist attacks myself, I personally empathize with the victims of terrorism and appreciate their need for protection.
— Sheikh Hasina
I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.
— Shashi Tharoor
You can't confuse safety with religion or national origin.
— Shahid Khan
The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.
— Seth Shostak
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
— Sergio Leone
In the case of 'Disobedience,' the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community has was a huge invitation to explore an unknown world. And also a possible trap, and I tried to overcome that by portraying it, hopefully, with great nuance and detail and texture.
— Sebastian Lelio
The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.
— Sebastian Faulks
I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.
— Sean Hannity
I think there's a difference between God and religion.
— Sinead O'Connor
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.
I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.
— Simon Hoggart
Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses.
I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
— Simon Callow
Major forces that have contributed to the evolution of philanthropy in India in the pre-modern era have mainly been driven by religion, family, and society. The Hindu teaching of 'daan' or 'giving' is present in different ways in almost every celebration or ritual.
— Shiv Nadar
I know, in India, cricket is a religion, but I haven't had the time to follow it.
— Shilpa Shinde
I have grown to understand that no matter where we come from, human beings, at heart, are the same. Defining ourselves based on race, religion, and ethnicity is like betraying that.
— Shenaz Treasury
No human being, religion, nation, and sect can deny respect to mother.
— Shehbaz Sharif
The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it.
— Shana Alexander
I've lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country.
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
— Serj Tankian
It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.
— Sepp Blatter
I went to church as a boy, and then I quite quickly stepped away from religion. But I remained fascinated by the need people have for religion.
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
— Sean O'Casey
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.
— Sean Durkin
I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.
— Simon Toyne
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well.
The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't have happened without it. The way in which African Americans managed to achieve a degree of self-determination was through the church.
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
— Sigmund Freud
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
We need to build resilience together, rooted in religion, rooted in schools, rooted in our health care institutions.
— Sheryl Sandberg
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name.
As long as I did the good things associated with religion, I thought I was in good shape spiritually, too.
— Shawn Michaels
Mormonism is a male religion, a dream of prophets and patriarchs.
I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.
— Shah Rukh Khan
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
— Sela Ward
There are no grounds for discrimination in Europe, regardless of whether on grounds of gender, sexual orientation, or religion. On the other hand, there is equally no place for radical thought and political Islam.
— Sebastian Kurz
Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about.
— Sean Hayes
