Tariq Ali Quotes

I only sang bhajans from 4 to 16 years.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

Religion is just mind control.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

One man's cult is another man's religion.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.

The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

We need a new religion.