Quotes About Religion

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

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

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

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

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

There is zero evidence for god.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

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.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

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.

Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species.

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

We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.

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.

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

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

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

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.