Quotes About Belief

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.

There is zero evidence for god.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.

To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.

There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.