Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Voltaire

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Daron Malakian

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

Jonah Peretti

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

James Redfield

Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered.

C. S. Lewis

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

C. S. Lewis

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

C. S. Lewis

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

C. S. Lewis

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Alain de Botton

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

Charles Churchill

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Edmund Burke

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Edmund Burke

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Edmund Burke

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Amish Tripathi

In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

Harry Browne

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Annie Dillard

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?

D. Elton Trueblood

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

Clarence Darrow

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Daniel Dennett

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

Daniel Dennett

The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

Daniel Dennett

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

Daniel Dennett

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

Doug Stanhope

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Andre Malraux

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

Ambrose Bierce

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Ambrose Bierce

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

Ambrose Bierce

INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

E. O. Wilson

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.