Quotes about religion
religion balance wheels
Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit.... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to--no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion. Rutherford B. Hayes
religion
Properly speaking, all true work is religion. Thomas Carlyle
religion society church
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished. Thomas B. Macaulay
religion awake hippopotamus
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
religion atheism christianity
Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself. Thomas Jefferson
religion atheism doe
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.
religion littles
No religion but blasphemes a little. Victor Hugo
religion against-religion
I am for religion, against religions.
religion agnostic
Don't be agnostic - be something. Robert Frost
religion atheism firsts
(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment. Sandra Day O'Connor
religion church dangerous
To be of no Church is dangerous. Samuel Johnson
religion atheism church
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. Robert Green Ingersoll
religion church denial
I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
religion atheism doctrine
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.
religion immortal-soul doe
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
religion denial facts
One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.
religion world phases
Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.
religion doubt atheism
Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
religion facts
What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.
religion atheism world
It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?
religion atheism world
Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.
religion atheism slavery
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
religion atheism prejudice
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
religion-of-islam messengers quran
There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger. Saddam Hussein
religion unhappy dangerous
Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy. Robert Southey
religion what-if earth
What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?
religion atheism becoming
It is now becoming clear that everything can - and probably did - come from nothing. Robert Matthews
religion assumption should
...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so. Steve Allen
religion serious common
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. Stephen Jay Gould
religion neurosis psychiatry
Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis. Sigmund Freud
religion kind share
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such...
religion atheism balance
On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. Steven Weinberg
religion atheism seems
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.