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 SantayanaScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert EinsteinWe peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Juan SamaranchCatholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Madonna CicconeWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais NinReligions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond QueneauReligion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund FreudIt 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 RushBoxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce OatesIt 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 GandhiReligion 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 WeinbergA 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
AristotleNothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea (Propos sur la religion)
AlainReligion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert G IngersollA union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo BlackI 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 GibranReligion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose BierceThe sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow
C F ForbesIt is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonKeep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
Daniel DennettReligion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. [This particular Earl of Chesterfield Lived 1694 - 1773]
Earl Of ChesterfieldReligion is like chemotherapy, it may solve one problem, but it can cause a million more.
John BledsoeWe 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 PopperHis religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps
Thomas CarlyleThe 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 LippmannThe 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 FrazerReligion is the highest vanity.
Friedrich HebbelI won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl SandburgScience can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul IIDoubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac SingerThere's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord ByronThe world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas PaineReligion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
Anatole FranceThere's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
Michael MooreFor man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat
Thomas HoodI care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it
Abraham LincolnThe true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew ArnoldPolitics in America is the binding secular religion.
Theodore H WhiteReligion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank HerbertWe're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion!
David BeckhamTo become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph IngeA 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 KwasniewskiReligion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William JerroldThere 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 IonescoA cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom WolfePassion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore De BalzacThink 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 SaganAny 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 PaineReligions do make claims about the universe - the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
Richard DawkinsWhen 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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