Quotations
Religion
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
- Thomas Paine
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
- Voltaire
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
- Issac Asimov
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
- Albert Einstein
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous... In the infinite extent of the universe, it is a direction of the heart.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
- Karl Marx
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
- George Carlin
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.
- Thomas Paine
We are so interested in religion that first we put the person who has come to
awaken us to sleep. Then making him God, we establish such a religion around
him that we don't face any obstacle in perpetrating the violence, jealousy, partiality,
lies, cheating, fraud or pretence as we desire; and simultaneously adhering to
few hypocrisies, also remain proud of being religious.
- Deep Trivedi
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive Unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness — an act of trust in the unknown.
- Alan Watts
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