Religion Quotes

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion
Dewey Henize

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happinessÖ

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resemble what actually happens
Ian Stewart

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so
Ernestine Rose

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
Harvey Milk

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Richard Burton

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

Religion is just mind control

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism
John Haynes Holmes

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
Jesse Ventura

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

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinkin

That's the problem with religion: you beat your way past the clerics, fight your way through the demons, stand before the holy of holies, and when you rip away the veil, there's nothing there but a mirror
Owen Rowley

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.







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