Quotes of: Organized-religion Keyword

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity attainable? . Let us reflect that it is inhabited by a thousand millions of people. That these profess probably a...

Notes on the State of Virginia

This was the scientific age, and people wanted to believe that their traditions were in line with the new era, but this was impossible if you thought that these myths should be understood literally. Hence the furor occasioned by , published by Charle...

A Short History of Myth

We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the dark ocean on whose rolling waves we toss for a brief hour; all the loneliness of humanity amid hostile forces is concentrated on the individual soul, w...

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned. It is a vacuous answer... To say that 'God made t...

Peter Atkins

Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our powers of wishful thinking? Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human b...

Sam Harris

Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a gen...

Steven Weinberg

I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claim...

Christopher Hitchens

An important distinction needs to be made in politics between allowing your values to guide you and keeping religion and government separate. Liberals are rightly concerned about government-established and government-supported religion, especially in...

Deval Patrick

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

The Gunslinger

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

Lance Bass

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Orhan Pamuk

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

O. Henry

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

Phil Ochs

It's not about religion, it's about relationship". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

To realize the truth, you have to cross the boundaries of all religions and prophets.

Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.)

Mystical Paths

There are so many things to exploit man, but religion and patriotism are at the top of the list.

Mayhem In Paradise

Religion has a way of making people into idiots is what my father says.

Mathilda Savitch

Religion isn't the problem; ignorance and hatred are.

Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good