Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
If you will trust your destiny it will be your religion.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.
Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent.
Faith moves mountains. Religion strip-mines them.
Love is the purest religion and the most destructive addiction!
But karma is not in fact a material accumulation, and does not depend on externals; rather its power to condition us depends on the obstacles that impede our knowledge. If we compare our karma and the ignorance that creates it to a dark room, knowled...
These stupid biases and discrimination are the reason our country is so screwed up. It's Tamil first, Indian later. Punjabi first, Indian later. It has to end. National anthem, national currency, national teams - still, we won't marry our children ou...
This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally as neutral arbiters of injury rather than as themselves invested with the power to injure. Thus, the effo...
States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. . . ...
Because the state uses violence to achieve its ends, and there is no rational end to the use of violence, states grow until they destroy civilized interactions through the corruption of money, contracts, honesty, family and self-reliance. No state in...
Beware! Abstain from shedding blood without a valid cause. There is nothing more harmful than this which brings about one’s ruin. The blood that is willfully shed shortens the life of a state. On the Day of Judgement it is this crime for which one ...
[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and oppressed, the very existence of a state is a fact of violence (in the same sense in which, for...
Two mystic states can be dissociated: the ecstatic-beneficent-and-benevolent, contemplation of the divine love, the divine splendour with goodwill toward others. And the bestial, namely the fanatical, the man on fire with God and anxious to stick his...
The clothes have no emperor.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
