“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”– Nathaniel Hawthorne Related Quotes “Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.”– Zbigniew Brzezinski “We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.”– Bill Maher “Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.”– Sri Aurobindo