We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Juan SamaranchI count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher MarloweLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckReligion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
Anatole FranceIt 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 GandhiI 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 MelmothThe government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
George WashingtonReligion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Tom RobbinsBut to us, probability is the very guide of life (The Analogy of Religion)
Joseph ButlerReligions do make claims about the universe - the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
Richard DawkinsJust in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill GatesIn the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Robert RuncieReligion 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 WeinbergAs a singer, I've had many opportunities to travel, and one thing I've learned is that through my music, I can be accepted by people all over the world. I often wonder why so many of us can't accept people who are different here, in our country? It's just not fair to be prejudiced against those whose race, religion or colour aren't the same as ours.
Celine DionYouth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted
Andre MalrauxWe 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 BebelOperationally, 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 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 GriffithReligion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund FreudI'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 BurnsYou could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going. [Then again you could say its due to medical and scientific improvement, and speak the truth]
Cyril ClarkeMayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose BierceReligions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond QueneauThere 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 IonescoAdversity reminds men of religion
LivyE.P. Whipple calls fanaticism 'religion caricatured,' which is a full definition in a word.
James PartonScience can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul IIWe 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 PopperReligion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose BierceAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree
Albert EinsteinConservatives 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 HoggFreedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganBoxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce OatesWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais NinA 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 SeldenIt 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 BuckA 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 KwasniewskiI am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein'If you're writing songs, there are two things that you just don't write about: politics and religion. We write about both.'
BonoThe true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew ArnoldFormerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas SzaszA cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom WolfeMy country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas PaineFear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas HobbesEvery man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Heinrich HeineThe mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. [On the continued appeal of religion]
Bede JarrettWhenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
Henry MillerThere is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
Harold WilsonSome people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property
Maria EdgeworthPolitics in America is the binding secular religion.
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