A religion is not just a set of texts but the living…

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices…

— Annie Besant

“The entire world is surviving only due to ‘beliefs’, not because of ‘Knowledge’ (Gnan). Every human being is (living) only because of beliefs.”

— Dada Bhagwan

I'd rather live for what I believe in rather than die for it. After all, how am I supposed to make a difference if…

— Kaitlen Dearing

A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not…

— Linus Roache

“Certain beliefs place their adherents beyond the reach of every peaceful means of persuasion, while inspiring them to commit acts of extraordinary violence against…

— Sam Harris

I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.

— William T. Vollmann

'Know your enemy, name your enemy' is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi…

— Michelle Malkin

We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't set up…

— Martin Rees

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

— Isaac Asimov

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine…

— Eric Hoffer

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

— Edward Abbey

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its…

— Rick Perlstein

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

— Herbert Spencer

I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it.

— Joe Mullally

It is important to set an example.

— Parvathy