People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

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

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

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist one-quarter Catholic one-quarter Jewish.

And religion causes most of the problems war and economics of course and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling you don't get it you're missing the whole point.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about things that interest me: politics religion ecology and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations from the state down to the village garden club end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music listening to music making records and singing.

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture to music to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray and if I have a question I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

Islam is a peaceful religion.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.