Religion Quotes
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
Frances Wright -
The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
Umberto Eco -
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
Saint Augustine -
Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
Fabiola Gianotti -
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
Eddie Izzard -
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
Sam Harris
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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
John Stuart Mill -
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
Salman Rushdie -
I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
Hamza Yusuf -
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
Gary North -
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx -
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
Irving Kristol
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright -
Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
Karen Armstrong -
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
Salman Rushdie -
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
Yehuda Amichai -
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
Harriet Martineau -
Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
Oscar Fernandes
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
G. Willow Wilson -
Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.
Lady Gaga -
In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.
Zhang Zhidong -
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
Randall Terry