We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

Every once in a while you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit indeed they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core they want more empathic enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.

When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

If you have some respect for people as they are you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary profound and alive.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession which I was trying to throw off and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

When state and religion are one religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

The more you get into any religion it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people and how you get out of this 'I me mine' type of thing.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever least of all to organized religion.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

When law and duty are one united by religion you never become fully conscious fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

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

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

To become a popular religion it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race religion or political views that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.