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Quotes including the word “religion”.

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Sathya Baba

There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.

Brendan Behan

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

Borges

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

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.

Arthur Clarke

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

Einstein

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Epictetus

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

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.

Maxim Gorky

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

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.”

Victor Hugo

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Hypatia

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

Krishnamurti

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

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.

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.

Maupassant

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

Guru Nanak

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

Napoleon

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

George Orwell

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Thomas Paine

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

Saadawi

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Schopenhauer

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

Schopenhauer

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

Irena Sendler

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

Seneca

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

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.

Jonathan Swift

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

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.

Voltaire

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