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Quotes About Expression

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
~ G.K. Chesterton
No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
~ Richard Stallman
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
~ Ezra Pound
The idol is the expression of religion.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Music is my religion.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Music is my higher power
~ Oliver James
Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.
~ Rick Perry
For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.
~ Rosanne Cash
Your garden will reveal yourself.
~ Henry Mitchell
With the power of soul, anything is possible.
~ Jimi Hendrix
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.
~ John Adams
I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.
~ Robert Pattinson
I'm obsessed with low end, its kind of my religion. In a way it has given me a chance to explore more than I have in any other project.
~ Max Richter
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
~ Lou Reed
religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.
~ Marie Corelli
Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.
~ Hiroshi Sugimoto
Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species.
~ Mathew Staver
Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
~ F. H. Bradley
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
~ James Freeman Clarke
Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
~ Ernest Istook
We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.
~ Victor Cousin
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
~ Miroslav Volf