Secular Quotes

• It is open. It will remain secular and apolitical.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Secular
  • Apolitical

• Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Funeral
  • Against

• Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own very short-term investigations, than the collective remembrances of the rest of humankind.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Christian
  • Scientist
  • Remembrance

• Businessmen are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Business
  • Fact
  • Benevolence

• I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Great
  • Men
  • Thinking

• In the very first part of the constitution there is the article that refuses any law or any article in discrepancy with Sharia. We Iraqis feel it was imposed on us. It wasn't a local thing. Iraqis have led a sort of secular life for almost 50 years.

  

  Yanar Mohammed
  • Life
  • Law
  • Constitution

• We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

  

  Gary DeMar
  • Change
  • Government
  • Theocracy

• Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

  

  William Bennett
  • Christian
  • Religious
  • Acknowledge

• We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Today
  • Religious
  • Anxiety

• But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Art
  • Today
  • Religious

• Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

  

  Michel Onfray
  • Causes
  • Caricatures
  • Clergy

• In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • People
  • Religious
  • Western

• Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Kind
  • Moments
  • Ideology

• Nepal will be a secular state - there is no other way.

  

  Sushil Koirala
  • Way
  • Secular
  • Nepal

• Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.

  

  Norman Dorsen
  • Constitution
  • Atheism
  • Humanism

• Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Prayer
  • Secular

• Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

  

  Whitley Strieber
  • Remember
  • Wonder
  • Childhood

• I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

  

  Steve Israel
  • Light
  • Government
  • Share

• Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.

  

  Georg Feuerstein
  • Important
  • Flower
  • Civilization

• Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.

  

  William Booth
  • Devil
  • Harmony
  • Divine

• The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Culture
  • Secular
  • Rhythms

• America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

  

  Will Herberg
  • America
  • Christian
  • Religious

• I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Consider
  • Citizenship
  • Agnostic

• With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have therefore adopted the new constitution as a secular state where all religious beliefs will be respected.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Catholic

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