I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death.… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to… — Joseph Leon Blau Copy Share Image
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our society is not held together primarily by law and its enforcement but most importantly by those who voluntarily obey the unenforceable… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
“Captain Smith,” Jackson thoughtfully responds, “my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed… — Dennis Jowers Copy Share Image
By the age of fifteen, I had convinced myself that nobody could give a reasonable explanation of what he meant by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
A lot of religious belief - even the majority - involves making factual claims about the world which do come into conflict… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“attempting to understand what could have eroded our sense of community, an important role has traditionally been accorded to the privatization of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the… — James George Frazer Copy Share Image
“…such criticism and mockery are largely beside the point. All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“The theory of the relations between states and churches is bound up with the theory of Toleratio, and on that suject the… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“...a man is not in any difficulty in making a reply according to his faith ... to those who try to defame… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
You are American, whether you profess Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, whether you adhere to Islam, or whether you believe in nothing at all.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief. — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater. — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image