Emile Durkheim Quotes

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

The institution of religion is important.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Religions get lost as people do.

Faith is an important part of the fabric of our society.

Why do people stick with their God? That’s what they have.

Religion is such a path with people.

Over centuries, we have attached too many meanings to religion.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

Christianity is the hallmark of civilization.

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

I believe religion is important for every person.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.