Religion Quotes

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

"Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do."

"I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic."

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."

"India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire."

"Religion is all bunk."

"A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society."

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

"For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion."

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."

"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."

"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt."

"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."

"A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country."

"Religion is such a path with people."

"In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out."

"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."

"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."

"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."

"The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before."

"My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that."

"The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph."

"Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands."

"Religion 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."

"Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."

"Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer."

"I dislike religion quite intensely. It's been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship."

"Religion is just mind control."

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."

"Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God."

"Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action."

"Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals."

"I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all."

"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery."

"When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion."

"There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine."

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth."

"If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble."

"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."

"Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river."

"I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space."

"Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind."

"To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion."

"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other."

"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion."

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."