Gautama Buddha Quotes
Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
Gautama Buddha
Quotes to Explore
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl Marx
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
Karen Armstrong
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The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Lamar S. Smith
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Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
Sam Harris
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When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
Karen Armstrong
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
Hal Holbrook
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You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.
Patrick Chappatte
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I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.
Ja Rule
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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.
Eckhart Tolle
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It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
