#religion

It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that. ↗

— Prince

#choice #countries #fun #happy #islamic

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.' ↗

— Prince

#else #most #people #politics #religion

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#comes #composed #everything #founded #great

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#again #bad #bands #cover #hearing

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. ↗

— Lou Reed

#important #most #part #play #religion

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#breathe #cinema #could #guess #i

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#his #important #man #most #over

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#businesses #consumer #control #going #governments

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#children #demonstrable #fact #inculcated #interesting

The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists, at least after they had briefly employed it as a 'furniture facility.' It had then been vandalized and perhaps accidentally set aflame by incurious and callous local 'youths.' Only the well-crafted walls really stood, though a recent grant from the European Union had allowed a makeshift roof and some wooden scaffolding to hold up and enclose the shell until further notice. Adjacent were the remains of a mikvah bath for the ritual purification of women, and a kosher abattoir for the ritual slaughter of beasts: I had to feel that it was grotesque that these obscurantist relics were the only ones to have survived. In a corner of the yard lay a pile of smashed stones on which appeared inscriptions in Hebrew and sometimes Yiddish. These were all that remained of the gravestones. There wasn't a Jew left in the town, and there hadn't been one, said Mr. Kichler, since 1945. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#religion