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QUOTES including the word: "religion"

Irena Sendler:
  • I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.

    • Maxim Gorky:
  • Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

    • Thomas Paine:
  • The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

    • Hawking:
  • There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”

    • Guru Nanak:
  • The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.

    • Brendan Behan:
  • “They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues…”

    • Sathya Baba:
  • There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.

    • Saadawi:
  • When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

    • Tchaikovsky:
  • I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music.

    • Jonathan Swift:
  • We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

    • Hypatia:
  • All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

    • Fidel Castro:
  • “If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

    • Borges:
  • “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

    • Krishnamurti:
  • I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

    • Einstein:
  • Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

    • Schopenhauer:
  • Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

    • Epictetus:
  • All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

    • Maupassant:
  • Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

    • Arthur Clarke:
  • The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

    • Karl Marx:
  • Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

    • George Orwell:
  • As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

    • Schopenhauer:
  • Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

    • Upton Sinclair:
  • The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

    • Napoleon:
  • “If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”

    • Carl Sandburg:
  • I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis … mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

    • Gandhi:
  • The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

    • Voltaire:
  • When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

    • Seneca:
  • Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

    • Victor Hugo:
  • I'm religiously opposed to religion.

    • Luther:
  • War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

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