No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state
Felix Adler
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'Conner
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief
Oscar Wilde
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.
Robert Green Ingersoll
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges
Religion is a pill best swallowed without chewing.
Unknown
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
C.C. Colton
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
Mark Twain
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
Havelock Ellis
My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
Austin O'Malley
All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way.
Frederick the Great