The only solution seems to be for government to toughen the vaccination laws and close the loopholes that allow people to opt… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious.… — Sam Savage Copy Share Image
There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we… — Steve Scott Copy Share Image
If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I condemn all incidents of violence where religious minorities were targeted, no religious group can incite violence ... my government will ensure… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The NFL is made up of 1,800 players, guys from different religious backgrounds, different upbringings. I love Peyton Manning. But I don't… — Shannon Sharpe Copy Share Image
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates… — James P. Hogan Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the religious activity rather… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I know many people who believe in a god, and I expected to find him on my way to the South Pole… — Liv Arnesen Copy Share Image
The religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented… — Nancy Northup Copy Share Image
I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought… — David Alan Harvey Copy Share Image
Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no… — Charles Tupper Copy Share Image
Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
“As a full-time paid religious person, I understand the desire to restrict God’s work to only those who are formally recognized by… — Mike Erre Copy Share Image