Quotes About Culture

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Consumerism is our national religion.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

Tea...is a religion of the art of life.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.

Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.