Religion is the highest vanity.
Friedrich HebbelFor my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor
Napoleon BonaparteIn the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
Robert RuncieE.P. Whipple calls fanaticism 'religion caricatured,' which is a full definition in a word.
James PartonThere's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord ByronReligion 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 search for religion is the starting point of thought
Xu ZhimoReligion 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 GriffithThe sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow
C F ForbesReligions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond QueneauFear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas HobbesYou 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 ClarkePolitics in America is the binding secular religion.
Theodore H WhiteThe Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
Avery BrundageBoxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce OatesWe 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 PopperI won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl SandburgThere 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 IonescoHis religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps
Thomas CarlyleWhen 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 HertzbergReligion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
Austin FarrerThe first time I sang in the Church choir, two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred AllenFreedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganA union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
Hugo BlackWe're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion!
David BeckhamNothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea (Propos sur la religion)
AlainReligion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. [This particular Earl of Chesterfield Lived 1694 - 1773]
Earl Of ChesterfieldEvery 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 CampbellJust 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 GatesThe main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas HardyGenius 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 MoreSome people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property
Maria EdgeworthI am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert EinsteinI count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher MarloweFor me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinThere 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 WilsonReligion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
Anatole FranceI don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
Mike SchmidtIn England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce
Francesco CaraccioloLife 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 MazziniFor man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat
Thomas HoodSacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear!
Samuel DanielI 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 KeatsThe world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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 SantayanaModern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
Paul BertCatholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Madonna CicconeWe 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 often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank HerbertReligion 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.
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