religion Quotes

“I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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“Gods don’t like people not doing much work. People who aren’t busy all the time might start to think.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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“For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“They have made the happy discovery, that the way to silence religious disputes, is to take no notice of them.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious and supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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