Quotes About Religion

Le pregunté cómo se llamaba el gato y contestó que los gatos no se llaman porque no son cristianos como los perros

So you truly do not believe in God? I find no reason to, in nature... If the idea of God is unknown in the state of nature, it must then be a human invention.

Sir, Saint-Savin replied, the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

Os homens nunca praticam o mal tão completa e entusiasticamente como quando o fazem por convicção religiosa.

De mens bedrijft het kwaad nooit zo hartstochtig en vol overgave als wanneer hij dat doet uit godsdienstige overtuiging.

Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.

A civilização não chegará à perfeição enquanto a última pedra da última igreja não tiver caído sobre o último padre, e a Terra tiver sido libertada daquela escória.

Heden ten dage verstaat men onder vrijheid echter de mogelijkheid om de geloofsovertuiging en de mening te kiezen die je het meest aanstaat en die allemaal inwisselbaar zijn - en het maakt de staat niet uit of je vrijmetselaar, christen, Jood of een volgeling van de Grote Turk bent. Zo wordt men onverschillig jegens de Waarheid.

religion is or has sometimes been the opium of the people, more often than not it has been its cocaine.

Gli uomini non fanno mai il male così completamente ed entusiasticamente come quando lo fanno per convinzione religiosa.

Los hombres nunca hacen el mal de forma tan completa y entusiasta como cuando lo hacen por convencimiento religioso.

Les hommes ne font jamais le mal aussi complètement et ardemment que lorsqu'ils le font par conviction religieuse. » (p. 26)

WILLIAM OF BASKERVILLE: [after finding the secret room of books in the tower] How many more rooms? Ah! How many more books? No one should be forbidden to consult these books freely. ADSO OF MELIC: Perhaps they are thought to be too precious, too fragile. WILLIAM OF BASKERVILLE: No, it's not that, Adso. It's because they often contain a wisdom that is different from ours and ideas that could encourage us to doubt the infallability of the word of God... And doubt, Adso, is the enemy of faith.

The crusades were carried out in virtuous bad faith.

Musa'ya inanan sevgili kardeslerim, Fransa krali sizi Hiristiyan oomaya zorluyorsa Hristiyan olun, baska turlu yapamazsiniz cunku, ama Musa'nin yasalarini yureklerinizde saklayin: Malinizi mulkunuzu elinizden aliyorlarsa, ogullarinizi tuccar olarak yetistirin ki, yavas yavas onlar da Hristiyanlarin mallarini mulklerini ellerinden alsinlar.

Religious conversion evidently transforms not just the soul but also facial appearances.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they believe in nothing. They believe in everything.

Pero lo que importa no es si Cristo fue o no pobre, sino si la Iglesia debe o no ser pobre. Y la pobreza no se refiere tanto a la posesión o no de un palacio, como a la conservación o a la pérdida del derecho de legislar sobre las cosas terrenales.

Una guerra santa sigue siendo una guerra.

Sería atroz —comentó Guillermo— matar a un hombre para decir Credo in unum Deum…

Por todo lo cual, estaba reflexionando que, si a veces la religión es o ha sido el opio del pueblo, quizá más a menudo ha sido su cocaína

A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.

National Socialism versus true Socialism, racism versus humanity—that was the struggle between Satan and God in the modern world.

Various persons had decided to burn churches and church buildings in Spain, as a means of putting an end to the use of religion in support of political reaction and industrial slavery. Lanny was sorry, because to him these old churches were sanctuaries of art and of such culture as had existed in their day.