People Quotes

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

~ Edmund Hillary

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

People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods.

~ Jay-Z

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.

~ Fred Allen

People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

~ Irena Sendler

When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

~ John Lewis

There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

~ Salman Rushdie

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

~ Alexander Chase

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

~ Barack Obama

I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

~ Daniel Dennett

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

~ Gerard Way

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

~ Reza Aslan

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

~ David Lynch

What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

~ Abraham Maslow

Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.

~ Zach Anner

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

~ Ziggy Marley

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

~ Clarence Darrow

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.

~ John Shelby Spong

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

~ Grover Norquist

It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in?

~ Paul Bloom

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

~ Charles Spurgeon

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

~ Nikki Haley

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

~ Daniel Bell

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

~ Christopher Hitchens

I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion.

~ Gal Gadot

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

~ Salman Rushdie

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

~ Clint Eastwood

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

~ Samuel Butler

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

~ Prince

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

~ Ziggy Marley

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

~ Michael Caine

The only real shaming I've ever experienced has been from other gay people when I reveal my politics or my religion.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

~ Aaron Neville

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

~ Rudy Giuliani

Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.

~ Will Poulter

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

~ Matisyahu