Go beyond science into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

I mean I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion it is sex.

It may be that religion is dead and if it is we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

I've found a more personal pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God like Elvis has left the building.

But let's just say I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

After all enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion you have got a leak in your religion.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion which causes us to leave the world and seek God.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human if one only interprets this correctly.

Set religion free and a new humanity will begin.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.