Religion Quotes

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
Thomas Jefferson
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle, unknown
Voltaire, letter to frederick, 1767 - as long as there are fools and rascals, there...
Sigmund freud - religion is an illusion and it derives its...
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
Jonathan Swift
Ralph waldo emerson - in the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten...
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
John Hay
There shall be no compulsion in religion.
Quran 2: 263, Quran 2: 263
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
John Randolph
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe
Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.
Muhammed Ali, in a television interview
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. Mencken
Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuh
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
Elbert Hubbard
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman
England has forty - Two religions and only two sauces.
Voltaire
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Karl Marx, Urban Dictionary, under "Religion".
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
Jonathan Swift
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - - Live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
F. Forrester Church
Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Oscar Wilde
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
Robert Jackson
Religions change; beer and wine remain.
Hervey Allen
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
Jonathan Swift
Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
Frederick the Great
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330
Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.
B. J. Gupta
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein