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~ Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~

~ I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you. ~

John Keats

~ I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god. ~

Bruce Chatwin

~ The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it’s heart ~

H.G. Wells

~ Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. ~

Don Hirschberg

~ The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light of the glow-worm, which gives no heat, and illumines nothing but itself ~

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

~ Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing. ~

Osho

~ Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. ~

Robert Ingersoll

~ Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. ~

Benito Mussolini

~ Science can only determine what is, but not what shall be, and beyond its realm, value judgements remain indispensable. Religion, on the other hand, is concerned only with evaluating human thought and actions; it is not qualified to speak of real facts and the relationships between them. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ~

James Feibleman

~ Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother. ~

Voltaire

~ If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish. ~

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it ~

Mikhail Gorbachev

~ Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. ~

William Robertson Smith

~ Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew. ~

Luther Burbank

~ There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham. ~

Anna Sewell

~ There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. ~

Ryszard Kapuscinski

~ I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. ~

Herbert Read

~ All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. ~

Beatrix Potter

~ If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. ~

Dennis Prager

~ These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness ~

Anthony de Mello

~ In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. ~

Kofi Annan

~ Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ~

Flora Lewis

~ India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. ~

Sri Aurobindo

~ Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. ~

Albert Einstein

~ We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham. ~

King Hussein I

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