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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Juan Samaranch

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Madonna Ciccone

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond Queneau

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud

It is now several months since I promised to give you my reasons for preferring the Bible as a schoolbook to all other compositions. Before I state my arguments, I shall assume the five following propositions:

1 . That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts they will be wise and happy.

2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.

3. That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

4. That knowledge is most durable, and religious instruction most useful, when imparted in early life.

5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
- Benjamin Rush, Essays, pp. 93-113, 'A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book'.
Benjamin Rush

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce Oates

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.
Steven Weinberg

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side
Aristotle

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea (Propos sur la religion)
Alain

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert G Ingersoll

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo Black

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce

The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow
C F Forbes

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
Daniel Dennett

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. [This particular Earl of Chesterfield Lived 1694 - 1773]
Earl Of Chesterfield

Religion is like chemotherapy, it may solve one problem, but it can cause a million more.
John Bledsoe

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.
Karl Popper

His religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps
Thomas Carlyle

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart
Walter J Lippmann

The thing about religion is it seems that everyone has a slightly different conception of what it is and what it might mean to them.
James Frazer

Religion is the highest vanity.
Friedrich Hebbel

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Singer

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
Anatole France

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
Michael Moore

For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat
Thomas Hood

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it
Abraham Lincoln

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
Theodore H White

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank Herbert

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion!
David Beckham

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph Inge

A great Pope - our most outstanding fellow countryman, the Holy Father, a good father to all of us, believers and non-believers, followers of different religions - is no more. [On Pope John Paul II]
Aleksander Kwasniewski

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William Jerrold

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
Eugene Ionesco

A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore De Balzac

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Carl Sagan

Any system of religion that has any thing in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system. (The Age of Reason)
Thomas Paine

Religions do make claims about the universe - the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
Richard Dawkins

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.
Arthur Hertzberg



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