Quotes about Culture
Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.
— Charles Colson
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
— George Bernard Shaw
Religion is civilization, the highest.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
— Oscar Wilde
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
— William James
If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.
— Oswald Chambers
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
— Joseph Campbell
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
— CS Lewis
Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.
— Charles Colson
I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.
— Gordon Hinckley
Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
— Benjamin Disraeli