One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
-Richard Dawkins
Quotations
Religion
The biggest trick that we, the religious gurus have played is; the ones who came
to destroy us, we placed them only as gods before you. Now say, how could our
shutters ever be pulled down?
-Deep Trivedi
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
-Philip Pullman
Perceiving her son endowed with the characteristics of Vishnu, Devaki prayed: You are the Illuminator of all psycho-physical organisms, the indefinable Reality, which the Vedas declare as the unmanifest cause… When the universe is dissolved by force of Time, the gross elements are ultimately merged in ahankara (their cause)…
-Scriptures "Bhagavata Purana"
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
-Mahatma Gandhi
What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
-Hitopadesa "Hitopadesa"
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
I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT!'
-Margaret Cho
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
-Bill Maher
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand
-Mark Twain "Mark Twain"
