Our moral religious and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

I have no right by anything I do or say to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

In both religion and science some people are dishonest exploitative incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion whatever else it has done has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex age race skin color language religion political view or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

I'm still a person a human being no matter what religion I am.