Religion Quotes
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Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.
Alma Katsu
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Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.
Jimmy Buffett
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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
Oscar Wilde
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Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis...
Sigmund Freud
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A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for establishment clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation "under Jesus," a nation "under Vishnu," a nation "under Zeus," or a nation "under no god," because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion.
Alfred Goodwin
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.
Wilford Woodruff
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Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.
Flannery O'Connor
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The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfillment.
Agnivesh
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The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.
Annie Laurie Gaylor
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The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.
Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
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I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.
Muhammad Ali
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There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either the scientific attitude, or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.
Bronislaw Malinowski
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Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.
Arthur Schopenhauer