Susan Sontag Quotes

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

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

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.

Religion is now a matter of private judgment and observance for a majority, and thus we have become a country of not a few hundred different creeds but a few million.

I believe religion is important for every person.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

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

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

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

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

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.