Guillermo del Toro Quotes

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

Convictions are much more an enemy of the truth than lies.

You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.

When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion.

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

Whatever you think of George W. Bush, he left office with his faith intact, and I respect that.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

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

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

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

No, I'm not a scientologist.

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

'Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was definitely harder. I think it's just hard to talk about faith in general.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.