Conservatives 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 HoggWe 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 PopperFear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas HobbesUnless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
EpictetusThe world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas PaineWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais NinI 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 GibranNothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea (Propos sur la religion)
AlainReligion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose BierceI am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T S EliotThe Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheI won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl SandburgThere's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord ByronThe Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
David HumeYou 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 ClarkeHis religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps
Thomas CarlyleEvery religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph CampbellI am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert EinsteinThere 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 WilsonDoubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac SingerThere's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
Michael MooreEvery man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Heinrich HeineNothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund BurkeJust 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 GatesI 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 MelmothThink 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 SaganBy 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 ChaseReligion 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 WeinbergThe Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
Joseph JoubertThe government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
George WashingtonGenius 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 MoreWhen 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 HertzbergThe true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew ArnoldWhenever 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 MillerIt 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 BuckHow many evils has religion caused!
LucretiusWhen 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 HerbertAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree
Albert EinsteinReligions do make claims about the universe - the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
Richard DawkinsSome people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property
Maria EdgeworthAfter I left the convent, for fifteen years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it.
Karen ArmstrongI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaAs long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre De BeaumarchaisThere is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold NiebuhrReligion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
Anatole FranceMorality 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 LongfellowIn England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce
Francesco CaraccioloLet us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
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 SeldenThe main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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