Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality. — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Everything else is expendable, but not humanhood. Every scripture, every god, every angel, every messiah, every church, every temple, every mosque, every… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When the mind rises punned in the flames of self-realization, distance between human and human disappears as if it never existed in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those… — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Copy Share Image
But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside,… — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
“God, deities and prophets thrive on obscurity, and it does not necessarily have to be material obscurity, often it is intellectual, as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions, but we've got all the language wrong and made this divide… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I met with many of - a number of [Syrian] refugees in Berlin the other day, and I was struck by how… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“It is my opinion that education is a key component to peace and progress. Despite their arrogant claims to have all the… — Tommy Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The person with a secular mentality feels himself to be the center of the universe. Yet he is likely to suffer from… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“From the Renaissance until today, Christianity, and also to some extent Judaism, in the West have had to carry out a constant… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Secularism is a term interpreted in many different ways by different people. For me, it has always been something very simple -… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“If you cannot be a human, instead you prefer to be a Christian, Muslim, Hindu or anything else, then how dare you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not… — Stephen V Monsma Copy Share Image
“The goodness of people depends on the intentions of their brains and not on their religion or ancestry.” — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.” — Fred Whitehead Copy Share Image
“...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless. [ From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist' ]” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
What I do not like is militant secularism, whereby anything is acceptable as long as it's not Christian. — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult. — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
“When the spirit shines with the flames of morality, there remains no question, confusion or compliance - all that there persists, is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image