Quotes of: Religions Keyword

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

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I s...

Salman Rushdie

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

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

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Benjamin Carson

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.

Ricardo Alarcon

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

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

Ja Rule

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Reza Aslan