David Mamet Quotes

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

I believe that dogma is often evil.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

What happens when we put belief in front of reason? When we even put belief above human life?

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.