Religion Quotes - page 8

Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principal task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view. (Kurt Gödel)
I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded. View quote
Kurt Gödel
A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. View quote
Henri Bergson
I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree. View quote
Katy Perry
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. View quote
Malcolm X
To sum up 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride. View quote
H. L. Mencken
There are people who read too much bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze. . . View quote
H. L. Mencken
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. View quote
Salman Rushdie
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all. View quote
Richard Dawkins
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. (John Henry Newman)
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. View quote
Denis Diderot
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun. View quote
Stephen Spender
Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme. View quote
Bernard Katz
For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in. View quote
George Steiner
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. View quote
Swami Sivananda
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. View quote
Herbert Read
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Science is the only religion of mankind. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none. View quote
Joseph Smith
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. (Swami Vivekananda)
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. Miss C. F. Forbes, (18171911). View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy. View quote
Albert Schweitzer