Quotes About Humanity

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

If you follow a religion but are devoid of the Love of God, then those that do not follow a religion but have the love of God are better.

Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.

Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Even without a religion, we can become a good human being.

My religion is kindness. A good mind, a good heart, warm feelings these are the most important things.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.