Religion Quotes
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Religion is a thing of the past, the Party said, an instrument of oppression that keeps the common man in bondage.
Camilla Gibb
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And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.
Thomas Hobbes
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
Will Durant
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
James G. Frazer
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In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
Sigmund Freud
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To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.
Dan Barker
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Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.
Richard Mentor Johnson
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It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.
Barbara Brandriff Crabb
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Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection with political discussions.... For the Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case as in others. Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.
Adolf Hitler
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The Dover disclaimer brings religion straight into the science classroom.
Alan I. Leshner
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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
William Lyon Phelps
