These ministries have merged pseudo-science with religious beliefs to create, in effect, a new religion, ... Eventually they will collapse under the… — Wayne Besen Copy Share Image
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches.… — Pedro Sanchez Copy Share Image
I'm not there to impose my religious beliefs on anybody, or say 'this is the only way you should think'. It's up… — Robert Hood Copy Share Image
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
“My religious beliefs are private to me,” he began, … and I suppose that yours may be to you. I am going… — William H. Patterson Jr Copy Share Image
“People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that they are beautiful? Self esteem is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“the ethical and political ideas of Locke, Rousseau and Jefferson. However, once the heretical scientific insights are translated into everyday technology, routine… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A defense [of religion] is needed because none has been forthcoming. The discussion has been ceded to men who regard religious belief… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If a harmonious relationship is established amongst societies and religious beliefs in today's multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural world, then it will surely… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“how can it be that the modern human mind is capable of precise logical analysis, and yet simultaneously permits us to accept… — dan brown 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 door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
“When I saw the illustration a new idea came to me. Might it not be possible to have Satsuko’s face and figure… — Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Copy Share Image
“You can't take away people's rights to meet your own religious criteria. What about my rights? Rachel, just because it offends you… — Marie Sexton Copy Share Image
“When does the foundation for speech which accepts all viewpoints and does not hurt anyone's viewpoint (syadvaad vani) arise? It is when… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I love the good in all the religions and respect people's religious beliefs. But, I'm more a spiritual being rather than religious.… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
“She had recently come to think that in such unhappy times-when the odds were so high against personal happiness-to find love was… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Scientific and religious beliefs are important to people; but they are (usually) neither foundational premises, backing one outcome in advance against all… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Religious freedom doesn't include the freedom to disregard the law and restrict another's freedom to believe and act differently. No one's forcing… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“If religious war is ever to become unthinkable for us, in the way that slavery and cannibalism seem poised to, it will… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Every religion I know of has changed its views with respect to concrete controversies over long periods of time. People's views about… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
“First, just because people’s religious beliefs can be easily accommodated, it does not follow that they should. Sometimes accommodations reinforce sentiments that… — John Corvino Copy Share Image
While all religious beliefs should be respected, choice is a human right. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“But thinking one's religious beliefs are substantially burdened - no matter how sincere or genuine that belief may be - does not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no arrogance more harmful than one's certainty that their religious beliefs be compulsory for everyone.” — F. Lee Barham Copy Share Image