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The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
~ Thomas Jefferson
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
~ Georgia Harkness
You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.
~ Canibus
The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.
~ Immanuel Wallerstein
Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.
~ Peter L. Berger
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.
~ Karen Armstrong
The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.
~ N. Scott Momaday
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
~ Desmond Tutu
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
~ Émile Chartier
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.
~ Amory Lovins
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
~ E. O. Wilson
If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
~ David Friedrich Strauss
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.
~ Leon Kass
Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.
~ Hiroshi Sugimoto
Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?
~ John Adams
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
~ Thomas Paine
Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.
~ Jeremy Griffith
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
~ Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...
~ Gore Vidal