Religious belief Quotes · Page 3

Religious beliefs...should never be an excuse to treat people badly.

— Zach Wahls

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I think most religious belief structures are essentially like mind viruses.

— Panos Cosmatos

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

— George Coyne

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

— Adolf Hitler

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.

— Javed Akhtar

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

— Jim Shaw

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

— Mitch Horowitz

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

— Bill Bradley

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of…

— Bill Gates

There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to…

— Zac Goldsmith

If you're wealthy like Donald Trump is, and you have a preacher who says your wealth is a sign God approves of…

— Tom Gjelten

Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions…

— Bernie Siegel

I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure…

— Barack Obama

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their…

— Anonymous

Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as…

— Jim C. Hines

“Your religious beliefs typically depend on the community in which you were raised or live. The spiritual experiences of people in ancient…

— Peter Boghossian

“When a person believes that a God is truly concerned about the well-being of life on earth, and especially of human life,…

— Abhijit Naskar

No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in…

— Leonard Peltier

When, in short, we shall have unlearned everything which has been taught since his [Jesus'] day, and got back to the pure…

— Thomas Jefferson

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees;…

— Alvin Plantinga

It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have…

— Tulsi Gabbard

On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their…

— Barry Goldwater

I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter…

— Tim Scott

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

— James Madison

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

— Hugo Black

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

— Anonymous

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

— Shirley Hazzard

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it…

— Anonymous

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

— Karen Maitland

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

— Salman Rushdie

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is…

— Anonymous

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

— Isaac Hayes

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

— Barack Obama

I think that our experiences are quite often colored by our cultural and religious beliefs.

— Rosemary Ellen Guiley

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

— Marian Seldes

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

— Mark Twain

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

— Pope Francis

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

— Katharine Hepburn