Famous Quotes: Religion

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.
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I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.
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Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
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Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.
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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.
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There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
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9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
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I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
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I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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