Quotes About Religion

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

[We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic.

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.