Top 1200 Religious Extremism Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

The Internet creates more space for extremism, and the echo chamber effect accelerates the process.

Donald Trump is about the rise of right-wing extremism, not only in this country, but in Europe.

Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or bad policy.

In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.

Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or from just truly religious people. The Jewish or Catholic faiths, for example, have their own rules. But just religious people, who will make very devoted parents, have no problem with in vitro fertilization.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

We need to confront the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds. We must stop what they're doing to inspire, because they do nothing to inspire but kill. Religious leaders must make this absolutely clear. Barbarism will deliver you no glory. Piety to evil will bring you no dignity. If you choose the path of terror, your life will be empty, your life will be brief, and your soul will be fully condemned. And political leaders must speak out to affirm the same idea. Heroes don't kill innocents. They save them.

My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.

There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

I have always tended toward extremism: I'm Motorhead rather than REO Speedwagon.

LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. Yes, there is a difference between when you laugh and when a religious man laughs. The difference is that you laugh always about others - the religious man laughs at himself, or at the whole ridiculousness of man's being. Religion cannot be anything other than a celebration of life.

No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of imagination land, which I find a lot of religious teachings, actually almost every religious teaching does. I keep meaning to write this up as a blog post, but lately, while driving in my car I've been listening to a religious station that comes on out of Cleveland from the Moody Bible Institute.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren't entirely reliable.

When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

An interesting thing about the religious people who run Iran is that one of their problems with Ahmadinejad, who they thought would be one of their guys because he's so religious, is that he actually has some really nutty ideas about religion. He's too religious. He's too literal. I mean, there are plenty of people in Iran who like Ahmadinejad's religious beliefs, just as there are plenty of Christian fundamentalists in America who like George W. Bush's beliefs. But there are also plenty of people who are very uncomfortable with his overt religiosity.

What does that mean - you're religious? Everybody is religious.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That is unfair.

Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.

With awareness and a social movement against extremism, we can prevent our children from becoming terrorists.

I'm not religious. But I grew up religious in the Bible Belt.

The frothing Trump-haters' extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody.

I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

Objecting to someone because of his religious beliefs is not the same thing as prejudice based on religious heritage, race, or gender.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

Domestic violent extremism is not a threat limited to any single law enforcement agency.

The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.