Famous Quotes: Religion

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.
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I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
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I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
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My life was changed in one breath from God.
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Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
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Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
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I do engineering, not religion.
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