Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities. Votes: 3
Emile DurkheimReligious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action. Votes: 3
Ralph E. Reed, Jr.Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. Votes: 3
Sam HarrisReligious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding. Votes: 3
David NovakReligious minorities (including Jews) will have to wear special insignia in Iraq Votes: 3
Amir TaheriReligious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books. Votes: 3
Taslima NasrinReligious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness. Votes: 3
Dalai LamaNothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity. Votes: 3
Ambrose BierceReligious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose. Votes: 3
Thomas JeffersonReligious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench. Votes: 3
Bahá'u'lláhReligious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench. Votes: 3
Baha'u'llahReligious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. Votes: 3
William J. BrennanReligious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. Votes: 3
Edmund BurkeReligious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs Votes: 3
Barack ObamaReligious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. Votes: 3
William J. Brennan, Jr.Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. Votes: 3
William O. DouglasReligious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further. Votes: 3
Richard DawkinsReligious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago. Votes: 3
Dallin H. OaksReligious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured. Votes: 3
Isaac HayesReligious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral. Votes: 3
Gilbert K. ChestertonReligious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend. Votes: 3
Richard JeniReligious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis. Votes: 3
James A. MichenerReligious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff. Votes: 3
Nancy KressRemember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. Votes: 2
Stephen ColbertAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Votes: 2
Edgar Allan PoeWhen I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. Votes: 2
Abraham LincolnBe thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. Votes: 2
Richard DawkinsI grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five. Votes: 1
Akhmad KadyrovThe religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates. Votes: 0
Ronald H. NashOnly religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. Votes: 0
Linus TorvaldsScience intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. Votes: 0
Charles LindberghSomehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Votes: 0
Dinesh D'SouzaTrue material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiCorporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies. Votes: 0
Jon RonsonI love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling. Votes: 0
Ryan LewisAmerica's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional. Votes: 0
Mark McKinnonOur religious understanding and beliefs should evolve just like everything else. Votes: 0
James CookSpirituality is conversation with God, everything else is just religious custom. Votes: 0
Stefan EmundsA religious man is a person ... whose greatest passion is compassion. Votes: 0
Abraham Joshua HeschelWe are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. Votes: 0
William O. DouglasYet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches. Votes: 0
Reverend Malcolm BoydIt takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice. Votes: 0
Soren KierkegaardDoubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. Votes: 0
Isaac Bashevis SingerThe religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy. Votes: 0
Hugh Reginald HaweisTo discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship. Votes: 0
Georgia HarknessThe English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth. Votes: 0
David E. GoldbergMy national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim. Votes: 0
Dalia MogahedA fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. Votes: 0
Richard WhatelyThe mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt. Votes: 0
Gordon AllportI'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious. Votes: 0
Danielle SteelTolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism. Votes: 0
Baron d'HolbachDoubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters Votes: 0
Isaac Bashevis SingerMy religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving. Votes: 0
Pierce BrosnanI believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiI don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me. Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensA religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it. Votes: 0
Ignatius of LoyolaIMPERCEPTIBLE IMPELLENTGod exists in the heart, not in the show of religious alignment Votes: 0
Kamil AliBe short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. Votes: 0
Nathanael EmmonsThe study of comparative religions is the best way to become comparatively religious. Votes: 0
Ronald KnoxIf journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint. Votes: 0
Janadas DevanI have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating. Votes: 0
Muhammad Ali JinnahThere are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsOver and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false. Votes: 0
Paul D. BoyerIf a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyBy committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy Votes: 0
Francis CollinsEternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics. Votes: 0
Matt SalmonI don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes. Votes: 0
Barry O'FarrellIn Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe. Votes: 0
Recep Tayyip ErdoganThe United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office. Votes: 0
Jeb BushThe first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaIn the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded. Votes: 0
Ruhollah KhomeiniEducation was in danger from the source that always hampered itâreligious fanaticism. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowThe rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious. Votes: 0
Jon StewartThe essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiMany people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters. Votes: 0
Mark TwainThe supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution. Votes: 0
Jane AddamsMy God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutAll religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend. Votes: 0
Yasser ArafatWithout the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up. Votes: 0
Romano GuardiniResponsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom. Votes: 0
Horst KohlerThe true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical. Votes: 0
Alvin R. DyerEvery science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period. Votes: 0
Francis Parker YockeyEvery science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period Votes: 0
Francis Parker YockeyWe will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause. Votes: 0
John F. KerryMen who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonResponsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom. Votes: 0
Horst KoehlerThe left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories. Votes: 0
Jim WallisZombies are far better than religious people, because they do not discriminate in killing. Votes: 0
M.F. MoonzajerFor the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy. Votes: 0
Ludwig FeuerbachIt is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. Votes: 0
Jean CocteauPosterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man. Votes: 0
Denis DiderotEvery human being is a Muslim by nature, not by religious practice. By nature! Votes: 0
Louis FarrakhanFor some reason, religious jokes seem as trivial as jokes about food or driving. Votes: 0
Emo PhilipsThe idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudThe ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on. Votes: 0
William Anthony DonohueWe'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us. Votes: 0
Vladimir ZhirinovskyI don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamThe Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaThe test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. Votes: 0
Henri Frederic AmielA religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiIt is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use. Votes: 0
Hannah MoreMore and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. Votes: 0
Alexander ChaseThere is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country. Votes: 0
Jack BalkinIn comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultMy misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question. Votes: 0
Henrietta SzoldAn atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaMorals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. Votes: 0
Michele BachmannIt's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning. Votes: 0
Bill WattersonI am not religious in the dogmatic sense ... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. Votes: 0
Charlie ChaplinAnyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths. Votes: 0
Sam HarrisI hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare. Votes: 0
Marjorie FlemingI am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinIt's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy. Votes: 0
Madeleine AlbrightI don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual. Votes: 0
Julian OvendenIt really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief. Votes: 0
Mary McCarthyThe love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse. Votes: 0
William JamesBut I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude. Votes: 0
Jon FishmanFor nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell HolmesI have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieI am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious. Votes: 0
John Shelby SpongI'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are. Votes: 0
Martin ReesIt is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. Votes: 0
Ian HislopI'm a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday. Votes: 0
George StraitEgotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself. Votes: 0
John Henry NewmanA strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues. Votes: 0
Tony CampoloVeblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer... Votes: 0
Robert HeilbronerWhat we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk. Votes: 0
Vance HavnerAtheism is the only world-view or religious view that is not tolerated within the SS. Votes: 0
Heinrich HimmlerEven your religious friends do not want to hear about God during a medical diagnosis. Votes: 0
Doug StanhopeBeware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself. Votes: 0
Vance HavnerWe religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people. Votes: 0
Keith MillerAs a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research. Votes: 0
George CoyneI'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant. Votes: 0
Daniel RadcliffeWhy has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart? Votes: 0
Robert BurnsIn India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaAfter coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheBeing brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. Votes: 0
Dolly PartonAfter coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheJudaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensI grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music. Votes: 0
Mike WhiteReally, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: "Just be cool. Don't be an asshole. Votes: 0
Nick OffermanA doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility. Votes: 0
Kim Du-hanI never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one. Votes: 0
Lady GagaI am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs. Votes: 0
Dannel MalloyFrankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work. Votes: 0
Sukhwinder SinghThe religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute. Votes: 0
W. H. AudenI'm not in any way religious. I don't go to church, but I consider myself spiritual. Votes: 0
Charlie SheenIt was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls. Votes: 0
Max PlanckAs a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people Votes: 0
Keith MillerA religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. Votes: 0
Jessamyn WestAmerica seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations. Votes: 0
Will HerbergA good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be. Votes: 0
Samuel RichardsonI'm not Christian, but I'm religious. I believe in a higher God and beings and spirits. Votes: 0
GunplayBy respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Votes: 0
Albert SchweitzerThe closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical. Votes: 0
Amos LeeDuring the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it. Votes: 0
J. G. StedmanWe do not need to prove religion to [people], but to show them that they are religious. Votes: 0
George TyrrellMan is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them. Votes: 0
Hal HolbrookI desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiI believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman. Votes: 0
Rand PaulThey hate us because we are atheists and we feel sorry for them because they are religious. Votes: 0
M.F. MoonzajerThe supreme religious challenge is to see God's image in one who is not in our image. Votes: 0
Jonathan SacksWhat does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege? Votes: 0
DaShanne StokesI'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach. Votes: 0
Paula DeenMy temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies. Votes: 0
Zubin MehtaAnyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious. Votes: 0
William H. MacyWe must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make. Votes: 0
Joseph CookI am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt. Votes: 0
Janet JacksonWe give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds. Votes: 0
Cameron ConawayThe crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death. Votes: 0
Arthur AdamovWith my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiA belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held. Votes: 0
Don CupittLiberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.
Ann CoulterI would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation.
Bill MaherThere is nothing very religious about feeling superior to those who don't share your views.
James CookThe union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.
John Scott, 1st Earl of EldonA truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
Khalil GibranI think that our experiences are quite often colored by our cultural and religious beliefs.
Rosemary Ellen GuileyConscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
Samuel SmilesThroughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.
Al Gorethe biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.
Diane AckermanThe games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
Dorothea BrandeBut I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
Hu Shih'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'
William BlakeOf course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.
Benjamin CarsonDiscipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
Noah WebsterIncurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
Thomas A. EdisonOne should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.
D. H. LawrenceI'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.
George MeyerI love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.
Kehinde WileyIf you're religious or not, the world and society lacks as much of community spirit as it had.
Luke PritchardThe fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.
Mahatma GandhiI believe that the fact that I am religious brings me closer to anyone with a different faith.
Margrethe II of DenmarkThe anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.
Adolf HitlerFor a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
Carl SaganI was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.
Helene AylonPhilanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBy the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.
Roger WatersI'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it
Sugar Ray LeonardThe United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
Thomas PaineThe religious foundations of America have been completely expurgated from our history textbooks.
D. James KennedyWe should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people.
Darrin Patrick...it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws...
George WashingtonI have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.
H. Rider HaggardI cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.
Herman MelvilleHeaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
Joseph AddisonAs for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
Juliet MarillierI believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
Marianne WilliamsonI am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
Meghan O'Rourke"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.
Pope Pius XIThere is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas.
Russell SimmonsI now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.
Sally QuinnIn our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
Thomas JeffersonIt is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
Barry GoldwaterI don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity.
Bill NyeReligious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.
Carly FiorinaIn a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
James MadisonReligious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.
John RawlsMasonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
Albert PikeTo be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
C. S. LewisThe true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.
E. O. WilsonThe only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday.
Fred EdwordsPersonal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
Geraldine FerraroFor as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.
Mitch AlbomThe secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.
Ronald H. NashI don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.
Frank ZappaI believe in God, and that's a personal relationship that I have, but I'm not religious in any way.
Joe JonasA religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.
Joseph AddisonThere is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
Joseph AddisonSchool textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage.
Paul VitzReagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.
Randall RobinsonI guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.
Sinead O'ConnorAbsolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.
Jacques MaritainI was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
John GreenHigh ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.
John TempletonNewspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.
Mahatma GandhiThere is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.
Mark DurieIt can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.
Rodney StarkI've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
Tom Perrotta