Quotes About Freedom

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.

The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."

However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

Music is my religion.

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.