Religions Quotes

• My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Father
  • Death
  • Cults

• 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
  • Violence
  • Principles
  • Dogmas

• 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
  • Society
  • Role
  • Religions

• I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims are against the Christians and the Christians are against Jews and the Jews are against Arabs - I mean, it just it goes on and on and on.

  

  Al Jaffee
  • Hatred
  • Religions

• There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

  

  Beatrice M. Hinkle
  • Wish
  • Human Life
  • Phylosophy

• All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.

  

  Bayazid Bastami
  • Religions
  • Vehicles
  • God's Presence

• The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Civilization
  • Played
  • Guilt

• Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Suffering
  • Religions
  • Human Life

• My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • True
  • Instinct
  • Religions

• Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Death
  • Heaven
  • Prevented

• At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

  

  Jules Michelet
  • India
  • Religions
  • Womb

• In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Principle
  • Religions
  • Differ

• 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
  • Killed
  • Advocate
  • Islamic Law

• 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
  • Young
  • Equality
  • Taught

• Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Poets
  • Religions
  • Abstractions

• 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
  • Discovery
  • Scripture
  • Scientists

• It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Freedom
  • Americans
  • Champions

• Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Government
  • Religions
  • Tragic

• Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace.

  

  Agnivesh
  • World
  • Peace
  • Religions

• 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
  • Change
  • Religions
  • Expediency

• Love is the cheapest of religions.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Love
  • Religions
  • Cheapest

• God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think.

  

  George O. Wood
  • Playing
  • Christians
  • United

• There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.

  

  Joshua L. Liebman
  • Punishment
  • Religions
  • Wrath

• I would like to see an agreement that recognizes that we live on the same planet and that some interests, such as human rights, must be universal and that all religions must be respected.

  

  Ninian Smart
  • Respect
  • Religions
  • Human Rights

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