Religion Quotes
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In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.
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We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.
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It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
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Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.
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Religion has been defined as designed to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. We do well to think of the parables of Jesus as doing the afflicting. Therefore, if we hear a parable and think, 'I really like that' or, worse, fail to take any challenge, we are not listening well enough.
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Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.
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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.
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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.
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All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.
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In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.
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We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.
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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
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What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
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You a Catholic, Harry?” O’Neill asked. “I was. Can’t see it any more.” “You know something?” O’Neill offered after a pause. “Religion is for punks and old folks. When you’re a punk you need it because you don’t know any better and it straightens you up. And when you’re old you need it for comfort before you check out. But in between it’s no good.
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The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
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My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.
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I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants
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Some have cited race and religion as the deciding factors, allowing men who jealously guarded their liberty to obliterate the liberty of others who were of a different color and different faiths.
