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
'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.
~ Chris Weitz
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
~ Jesse Ventura
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
~ George W. Bush
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
~ Bernard De Mandeville
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
~ Sam Harris
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
~ Malala Yousafzai
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
~ John Quincy Adams
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.
~ Gordon Brown
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'
~ Martha Beck
Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.
~ Bjorn Ulvaeus
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
~ Lady Gaga
There's no religion but sex and music.
~ Sting
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
~ Hans Küng
Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.
~ David Cross
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
~ Jonathan Sacks
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
~ Karl Marx
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
~ Ellen G. White
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
~ Bill Gates
The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
~ Erma Bombeck
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.
~ Alvin Toffler
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
~ Desmond Tutu
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
~ Anita Diament
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
~ Patrick Henry
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
~ John Woolman
I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.
~ Lou Duva
I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
~ Harold Ramis
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.
~ Ron Lewis
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.
~ Émile Durkheim
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
~ Robert South
