Quotes of: Freedom-of-religion Keyword

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

George W. Bush

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Herbert Spencer

People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.

Joseph J. Lhota

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

John Stuart Mill

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Vladimir Lenin

The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Horace Greeley

There is one element in Christianity which was not borrowed from Paganism -- religious intolerance. Referring to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, a writer on China says: 'Between the followers of the three national religions there is not only a to...

The Christ

Our Ancestors came to Australia, foraged for food in a rain forest where AM grew, ate the AM, and suffered the effects of muscimol hallucinations in a cave and drew paintings of a religious nature and these paintings were confirmed at 50,000 years ag...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle.

Latin

Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for c...

Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign...

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm a fundamentalist in the sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion... But for over 1,400 years people have been interpreting and re-interpreting the religion to suit their own purpose! ... These [extremist and terrorist acts] ar...

Mahathir Mohamad

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its...

John Keats

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are...

James Lovelock

The child who loves freedom is the first victim of it.

Bambara

Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that's not freedom! That's control, or power. Whereas I think Margaux understan...

Sheila Heti

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

The Christian Religion An Enquiry

[Der Zoll] ist ein Gesellschaftsspiel und eine Religion, die Religion der Vaterländer.

Schloß Gripsholm / Rheinsberg

I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

Ernest Istook