The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly…

The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

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

“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

A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.

— George Packer

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

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

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…

— David Hume

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you…

— Anonymous

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

— William Shakespeare

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable…

— Pope Gregory VII