I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for…

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation…

— Charlotte Bronte

When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the…

— Helen Keller

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

— Thomas Paine

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

— John Ruskin

People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have…

— Louis Leakey

As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray…

— Baruch Spinoza

... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,…

— Davis McCaughey

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up…

— Sri Aurobindo

Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second,…

— Frank Crowninshield

I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or…

— John F. Kennedy

I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

— James K. Polk

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive,…

— Syama Prasad Mukherjee