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The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them. -- Stewart Udall
Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God. -- Richard Rohr
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage. -- Melissa Fay Greene
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. -- Daniel Kahneman
Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. -- Gary Locke
Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion. -- Bill Condon
We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion. -- James Norton
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. -- Sivananda
I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion. -- Adam Mansbach
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me. -- Gene Luen Yang
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. -- E. O. Wilson
We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children. -- Shirley MacLaine
In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country. -- Najib Razak
I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it. -- Lorene Scafaria
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? -- Polly Toynbee
Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other. -- Shereen El Feki
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No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy. -- Dayananda Saraswati
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. -- Jerry Costello
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. -- Northrop Frye
We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science. -- Martin Rees
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. -- Deepak Chopra
Culture is religion incarnate. -- Charles Colson
Company culture is a religion, not a sermon. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. -- Francis Arinze
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. -- Richard P. Feynman
I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy. -- Jim Gaffigan
Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion. -- Alice Schwarzer
The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague. -- Gary Bauer
When it comes to culture, religion and mentality, most Russians identify with Europe. -- Sergei Ivanov
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions, -- Staffan de Mistura
Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science). -- Paul Tillich
Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture. -- Geert Wilders
As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion. -- Emily Barton
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion. -- Preston Manning
Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free -- Patrick Buchanan
It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation. -- Pratibha Patil
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. -- Sivananda
Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel -- Aja Monet
Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now. -- Boy George
We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated. -- Michael Bloomberg
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! -- Daniel Dennett
Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades. -- William Anthony Donohue
Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. -- Camille Paglia
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity. -- Leland Ryken
Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free. -- Pat Buchanan
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. -- Michelle Bachelet
Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion. -- Richard John Neuhaus
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness. -- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones. -- Megha Khare
Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy. -- Geert Wilders
There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion. -- Robert Bly
Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture. -- Edward Hirsch
In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions. -- Richard Posner
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion. -- Richard Dawkins
The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide. -- Dalai Lama
The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian. -- Eric Metaxas
Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization. -- Joel Augustus Rogers
How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women. -- Dalia Mogahed
The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it. -- Dennis Prager
As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension. -- S. Jay Olshansky
There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people. -- Vijay Prashad
They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion. -- John Campbell Shairp
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience. -- Diane Paulus
If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real. -- Oswald Chambers
Christianity brought something new and revolutionary: freedom and unconditional dignity for each individual, regardless of his religion, culture or nationality. But the East and the West have parted ways since the Crusades. -- Walter Kasper

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