To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly.… — Krishnananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
