Rituals Quotes

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

… religion is poison

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

The best way to make money is to start a religion.

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

The mercenaries devoted all their professional skill to eliminating hardship and anxiety for themselves and their own troops; they did not kill one another in battle, but rather took each other prisoner.

It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life. So if we completely reject, not intellectually but actually, all so-called … authority, all ceremonies, rituals and dogmas, it means that we stand alone and are already in conflict with society; we cease to be respectable human beings.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

I myself am not religious, but yes, I certainly grew up in a very Catholic environment.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference.

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

Growing up Mormon, you learn how to be very, very organized, and it's a passionate group. I mean, in that way, it's prepared me very well for Hollywood.

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

My religion is very important to me.

[Referring to Judaism:] ... a gutter religion.

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.

Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.