Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

Religions die slowly.

I just love tradition.

For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.

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

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

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.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

God save us from religion.

If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws …

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

Religions are, for the most part, bad. But religion is not.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes.

What does culture mean? It's not a physical thing. I love a museum, but that, for me, doesn't make you a better person.

I am not really superstitious but do follow certain established norms.

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

The institution of religion is important.

Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.

Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors - economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial - which shape and drive human action and reaction and often is the least important of those factors.

I've studied my culture deeply and I'm very aware of my tradition.