992 private quotes tagged religion

“Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.” — Alan Watts

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“Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.” — Edmund Burke

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“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.” — Voltaire

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“Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.” — Thomas Paine

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“Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.” — Franz Liszt

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“True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.” — Henry Cabot Lodge

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“I'm religiously opposed to religion.” — Victor Hugo

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“Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.” — Dalai Lama

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“I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.” — Bertrand Russell

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“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

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“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” — Dalai Lama

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“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.” — T. S. Eliot

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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” — Richard Dawkins

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“One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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