Quotes of: State-religion Keyword

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Herbert Read

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Hypatia

I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.

Bjork

[ ?'] It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc.

Bjork

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

Bono

Our very existence refuses your laws and your science, your religions and your philosophies.

B.E. Scully

The best ‘apologia’ (defense) of Jesus Following is your life ...not talking religion!” ~ gfp '42©

Gary F. Patton

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

George C. Williams

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

John McLaughlin

Religion suits everyone’s needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists

Daya Kudari

Yoga is not an exotic exercise or religion, but an integration process of the well-being of the body and mind.

Debasish Mridha

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Hans Kung

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Albert Camus

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

Kenneth R. Miller

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Lytton Strachey

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

Nawal El Saadawi

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Voltaire

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

John Ruskin

I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Andrew Sullivan