People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before but we have no responsibility toward them.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual you know the individual the person who doesn't conform.

I have a respect for manners as such they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Show respect to all people but grovel to none.

That you may retain your self-respect it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular liberal people I ignored it for a long time. Lately of course just from a political perspective it's impossible to ignore.

Well the first time I ran into the term religion people were asking whether you had any. You know some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

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.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

I think people often come to the synagogue mosque the church looking for God and what we give them is religion.

In both religion and science some people are dishonest exploitative incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore like any religion.

In all the antique religions mythology takes the place of dogma that is the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature the sentiment of the heartless world as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People afraid to oppose those fundamentalists shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion which is the source of fundamentalism.

There is no religion without love and people may talk as much as they like about their religion but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham.

Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.

People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.

My theory is if you have a religion it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.