Religious belief Quotes · Page 9

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen…

— Adolf Hitler

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.'…

— Don Adams

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees;…

— Alvin Plantinga

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless…

— Mario Cuomo

I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue.…

— Michele Bachmann

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief.…

— Igor Stravinsky

Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as…

— Jim C. Hines

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

— Steven Weinberg

A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the…

— Anthony de Mello

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the…

— Abhijit Naskar

Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. A religion…

— Martin Amis

I have experienced racism in this country. My children have experienced racism in this country. I wouldn't say America is against me.…

— James Peterson

It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of…

— Christopher Hitchens

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the…

— Richard Dawkins

Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country,…

— Ronald Reagan

I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find…

— Anne Lamott

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result…

— William Bennett

I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a…

— S. T. Joshi

Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for…

— William Blackstone

Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of…

— Sydney J. Harris

I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I…

— Barack Obama