992 private quotes tagged religion

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

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“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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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“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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“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.” — Thomas Paine

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“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.” — Thomas Carlyle

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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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“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.” — Albert Einstein

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“Wonder is the basis of worship.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.” — Anatole France

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“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” — C. S. Lewis

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“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.” — Voltaire

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“We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.” — Edmund Burke

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“I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.” — Muhammad Ali

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“We are punished by our sins, not for them.” — Elbert Hubbard

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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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“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.” — Blaise Pascal

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“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” — Voltaire

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“Toleration is the best religion.” — Victor Hugo

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