If I talk about the Hindu religion, all their gods are kings and warriors (kshatriya)...
Then when and how did the reins of religion get into the hands of these pundits
and sannyasins?
-Deep Trivedi
Quotations
Religion
How profound is your religious depth can be assessed from the number of
assurances and blessings you still need for your life.
-Deep Trivedi
Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear.
-Bertrand Russell
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
-Philip Pullman
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
-Avicenna
Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked through it.
-Frank Warren
"PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God"
I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
-Hannah Harrington
"Saving June"
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
-Alan Wilson Watts
What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
-Hitopadesa "Hitopadesa"
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
-Mahatma Gandhi
