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.
Music is my religion.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which o-ne is supposed to accept without question.
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.