Religions Quotes
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When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.
Cass McCombs -
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
Leon Trotsky
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The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?
Mahatma Gandhi -
I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with a petty text of Scripture. Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.'
Ravi Zacharias -
All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Hermann Hesse -
My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
Winona Ryder -
Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
Thomas A. Edison -
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Under Islamic Law, homosexuals - men and women alike - must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed. I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced...I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.
Benjamin Carson
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How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.
Dalia Mogahed -
Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.
Gene Veith -
If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real peace to the planet-and with it the possibility of improving lives on every level, not just economically, socially, and politically, but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually-then, just on a practical level, we need to have all of the religions working together.
Wayne Teasdale -
Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.
Sean O'Casey -
At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
Jules Michelet -
In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
Ernest Holmes
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All religions upon the earth are necessary because there are people who need what they teach. ... Each church fulfills spiritual needs that perhaps others cannot fill. No one church can fulfill everybody's needs at every level.
Betty Eadie -
There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.
Joshua L. Liebman -
The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
Al-Ghazali -
Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times.
Muhammad Ali