Quotes About Freedom

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender, race or religion. Nothing less than that is at stake.

To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

God save us from religion.

My own mind is my own church.

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.