Quotes about Expression
Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.
— Eric Metaxas
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
— GK Chesterton
In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'
— James Kennedy
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
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
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
— CS Lewis
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.
— Dorothy Sayers
In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in public - or you risk being hauled into court.
— Charles Colson
I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
— Toni Morrison
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.
— Toni Morrison
I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.
— Mark Twain