The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
We have enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Communism like any other revealed religion is largely made up of prophecies.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
We must respect the other fellow's religion but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors interpreting them as facts then you are in trouble.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion self-discipline that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature throwing myself into things but now times have changed I want a relationship where you understand the other person.
There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.
My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.
It is not really our country so much is the problem it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada and France and other countries have towards us.
I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more to touch each other more.
A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture you get into a relationship.
There are numerous cases of that where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.
The PRC is the big brother in this relationship and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.
I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other and we're best friends on top of it so we're very fortunate.
Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
In the beginning New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.
My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.