Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have…

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity…

— Ethan Zuckerman

I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.

— Taylor Swift

The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country, the people who want…

— Bill O'Reilly

Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and judge themselves.…

— Os Guinness

“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not…

— Alain de Botton

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can…

— M. Scott Peck

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

— Karl Jaspers

You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology…

— Ann Douglas

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the…

— Slavoj Žižek

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…

— Emma Goldman

The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday.

— Fred Edwords

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate…

— James Madison

My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers…

— Elif Batuman

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

— John Rawls