Religion Quotes - Page 11

• I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Thinking, Giving

  "Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu". news.bbc.co.uk. June 2, 2006.

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• He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.

  Joel Barlow

  Thinking, Soul, Loser

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• Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Childhood, Atheism

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

  Gore Vidal

  Punishment, Ideas, Atheism

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Apr 07, 2015

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• The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

  John Adams

  Simple, Government, America

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• If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  God, Atheist, Atheism

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• The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Atheist, Insightful

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.124, NYU Press

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• Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

  Denis Diderot

  Atheist, Kings, Men

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• If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Religious, Atheism

  "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

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• There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheist, Fear, Dark

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• Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Children, Hypocrite

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, War, Race

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Edward Egner (1961). “The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”

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  Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

  Epicurus

  Intelligent, Atheism, Fear Of Death

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• The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows religious precepts that, in the end, justify an unjust injury to others, while the questioning man, addressing his own conscience, may have the better chance to consider all the circumstances and come to the just decision.

  Gerry Spence

  Religious, Godly, Men

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.44, Macmillan

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• How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christmas, Christian, Merry Christmas

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

  Wendell Phillips

  Differences, Quarrels

  Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, C. I. H. Nichols (1854). “Woman's Rights Tracts”, p.20

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• The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  War, Winning, Tyrants

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Motivational, Yoga, Positivity

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• I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Humorous, Eye

  Mark Twain (2012). “Adventures of Tom Sawyer Companion”, p.41, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Catholic, Church

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• If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

  Woody Allen

  Uncles, Sea, Miracle

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• The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

  Bill Hicks

  Revolutionary Ideas, Forgiving, Suffering

  "Rant in E-Minor". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1997.

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Fall, Learning

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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