Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Rain doesn't check bank balance, soil doesn't require DNA test - breath doesn't ask for proof of residence, medicine doesn't require faith… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Any religion that does not evolve with time, either gets destroyed or destroys the world.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“How sick in your mind and your soul to be scared of my voice and my words.” — The Cure Copy Share Image
“Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Many fundamentalist Christian Evangelicals are racist because religion and racism are two sides of the same coin. Both are nothing more than… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“The moment the religious population of the world begins to see the prophets what they really were - mortal teachers of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“An outspoken atheist who most lovingly talks and listens to people of all religions without any bigotry or prejudice is a hundred… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Moreover it is one of the greatest curses of religion that it takes only the very slightest twist of a knife tip… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“Just imagine how it must feel to know that your family won't be going to heaven with you- I mean, truly believing… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be it religious, atheistic or political.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor… — Persia Woolley Copy Share Image
“If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, beyond the primordial, brutish labels of man-made institutions, true practical religion of the civilized society must bring oneness. This very process… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
“Accepting evil is worse than committing evil. You must – I repeat – you must, as a human being, stand up on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The Pilgrims had come to America not to conquer a continent but to re-create their modest communities in Scrooby and in Leiden.… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I told the priest my god is a black woman he poured holy water on me and scheduled me for an exorcism” — Ijeoma Umebinyuo Copy Share Image
“The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Jihadis! Please go to your imaginary heaven - out there, nowhere. Us, the infidel lot, have helluva lot to do after you… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
“I won't fit inside insect colonies with compost for brain and bloodlust for divinity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Any theology that starts with ethnic narcissism, by default becomes the lowest form of smut on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Seeking sacredness through scripture literalism is like sunbathing in the microwave, it only burns your skin, and cooks your brain.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism. — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
“Religion has a fanaticism problem - center religion on metaphor, and problem solved. Science has a freezing problem - center science on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image