Geraldine Brooks Quotes

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

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.

Religion is all bunk.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

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.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

Religion is just mind control.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

God save us from religion.

Religion is an irrational construct.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

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

You cannot struggle against religion. Those who have tried this have been doomed.

Religion has caused more misery to all men in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.