Quotes About Identity

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

You got your God and so do I.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.

Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.

The true religion of America has always been America.