Religion Quotes

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Alan Turing

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Allen Tate

I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.

Amish Tripathi

In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

Amish Tripathi

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Arnold J. Toynbee

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Abdurrahman Wahid

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Alfred North Whitehead

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

Alfred Russel Wallace

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

Alfred Russel Wallace

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

Alice Walker

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Arthur Wellesley

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

B. R. Ambedkar

Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Bill Condon

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Baron d'Holbach

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Bodhidharma

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

Billy Eckstine

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.

Boomer Esiason

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

Brian Eno