Religion Quotes
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In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.
Barbara Holland
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Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.
Georgie Henley
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Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
Gautama Buddha
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Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.
David Silverman
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The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
Jonathan Swift
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
George Bernard Shaw
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My religion is inclusivity.
Haaz Sleiman
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Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther
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Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.
Asghar Ali Engineer
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A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
William Jay
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In other words, science and religion occupied two separate spheres; in the pope’s view, Darwin might have explained where the human body came from, but that had nothing to do with the spiritual and divine aspects of human existence.
Edward Humes
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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Mikhail Bakunin
