religion Quotes

“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity,—a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,—and a dark shelter under, which the darkest,...”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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“They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”

― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

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“It is, I am afraid, true that frequently various religious groups endeavor to exert pressures and control over different legislative and educational fields. It is the job of all of us to be alert for such infringement of our prerogatives and...”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:religion education

“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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“What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:religion morality

“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear and punishment and hope of reward after death.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

topic:religion education morality

“Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how...”

― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great

“reason is the greatest enemy that faith has”

― Martin Luther, Table Talk

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