Religion Quotes
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion (Religion Quotes)
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow (Religion Quotes)
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war (Religion Quotes)
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis (Religion Quotes)
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience (Religion Quotes)
Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first (Religion Quotes)
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority (Religion Quotes)
I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it (Religion Quotes)
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion (Religion Quotes)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof (Religion Quotes)
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself (Religion Quotes)
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents (Religion Quotes)
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy (Religion Quotes)
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last (Religion Quotes)
It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one (Religion Quotes)
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty (Religion Quotes)
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it (Religion Quotes)
Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check (Religion Quotes)
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand (Religion Quotes)
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt (Religion Quotes)
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics (Religion Quotes)
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion (Religion Quotes)
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds (Religion Quotes)
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion (Religion Quotes)
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion (Religion Quotes)
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer (Religion Quotes)
A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on him (Religion Quotes)
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge (Religion Quotes)
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion (Religion Quotes)
The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death (Religion Quotes)