Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Tom RobbinsIn the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Robert RuncieGenius 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 MoreReligion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose BierceI care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it
Abraham LincolnThe Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
Avery BrundageReligion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
Austin FarrerScience is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James FeiblemanI have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
John KeatsBy 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 ChasePolitics in America is the binding secular religion.
Theodore H WhiteIt may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl BuckReligion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
Paul TillichReligion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William JerroldFor me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinI look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore
William MelmothI'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard SternWhen I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham LincolnSex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century
Malcolm MuggeridgeTo become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)
William Ralph IngeMorality 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 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 WeinbergSome people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property
Maria EdgeworthThe first time I sang in the Church choir, two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred AllenHow many evils has religion caused!
LucretiusBut to us, probability is the very guide of life (The Analogy of Religion)
Joseph ButlerReligion is the highest vanity.
Friedrich HebbelI'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
Montgomery BurnsReligion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert G IngersollThe mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. [On the continued appeal of religion]
Bede JarrettReligions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond QueneauLife is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim.
Giuseppe MazziniScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert EinsteinThere's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
Michael MooreAll humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De BalzacReligions do make claims about the universe - the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
Richard DawkinsWe 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 HumboldtKeep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
Daniel DennettThe 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 FrazerI am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert EinsteinFear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas HobbesWhen 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 HertzbergAs long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre De BeaumarchaisI am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard DawkinsHis religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps
Thomas CarlyleAdversity reminds men of religion
LivyConservatives 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 HoggOperationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. (Religion without Revelation, 1957)
Sir Julian HuxleyReligion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. [This particular Earl of Chesterfield Lived 1694 - 1773]
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