Christopher Hitchens Quotes

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

Being Jewish is a culture and a religion; we have food, music, and land specific to us.

Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is also an occasion to remember that Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

I didn't go to Hebrew school.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.

I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.

Judaism is not, per se, a religion in the sense most Americans think of. Even if you don't adhere to the various precepts, you're still a Jew.

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.

Above all, India is the land of religion.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

Now, at the end of my visit to the Philippines, I commend you to Him, to Jesus who came among us as a child. May He enable all the beloved people of this country to work together, protecting one another, beginning with your families and communities, in building a world of justice, integrity and peace.

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.