Well! Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a snug little property
Maria EdgeworthThe sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow
C F Forbes'Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.'
Karl MarxWhen law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Frank HerbertDoubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac SingerReligion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert G IngersollA glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
John SeldenBy our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
Samuel ChaseConservatives do not believe that the political struggle is the most important thing in life... The simplest of them prefer fox-hunting, the wisest religion.
Quintin HoggThe mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. [On the continued appeal of religion]
Bede JarrettTo become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph IngeMy country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas PaineEach 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 SantayanaI 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 GibranE.P. Whipple calls fanaticism 'religion caricatured,' which is a full definition in a word.
James PartonIt 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 RushI won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl SandburgThe Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
Avery BrundageWe're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion!
David BeckhamAll humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De BalzacLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckReligions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond QueneauWe cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.
Karl Wilhelm Von HumboldtScience is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul IISex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century
Malcolm MuggeridgeWhen I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham LincolnA union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo BlackAny 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 PaineThere's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
Michael MooreReligion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank HerbertWe aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
August BebelReligion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. [This particular Earl of Chesterfield Lived 1694 - 1773]
Earl Of ChesterfieldSacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear!
Samuel DanielModern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
Paul BertReligions do make claims about the universe - the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
Richard DawkinsI care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it
Abraham LincolnReligion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose BierceUnless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
EpictetusI don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
Mike SchmidtA cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom WolfePolitics in America is the binding secular religion.
Theodore H WhiteReligion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.
Andy GriffithMy great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D H LawrenceNo power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy BenthamAdversity reminds men of religion
LivyGenius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah MoreMorality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowReligion is the highest vanity.
Friedrich HebbelThe main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas Hardy
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