Religion Quotes - page 4

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. (Lucretius)
There's no religion but sex and music.
Sting (musician)
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
Irving Kristol
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent van Gogh
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Walter Scott
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. (Aldous Huxley)
There are things worth being loyal to, surely. Coffee, for instance, or one's religion.
John Galsworthy
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants' creed, the bees' creed.
John Galsworthy
God is for men and religion is for women.
Joseph Conrad
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
Religion... is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity.
Sigmund Freud
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion.
John Maynard Keynes
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Guy de Maupassant)
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
William Winwood Reade
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Abdul Kalam
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther