Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If one wishes to forgo the protection afforded by secular pluralism, then perhaps Western liberal democracies is not the right place for… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show,… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn't have any… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave. — Jair Bolsonaro Copy Share Image
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Buddha is the crown jewel of the Indian nation which accepts all ways of worship of all religions. This quality of Hinduism… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your… — Abul Kalam Azad Copy Share Image
The best predictor of a woman's involvement in terrorism, whether it's a secular or religious group, is a relationship with a terrorist:… — Mia Bloom Copy Share Image
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
“Mortality is the time to learn first of God and the gospel and to perform the ordinances. After our feet are set… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech. — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“They believe in a universe of divine justice where the human race is guilty of sin, but they also believe in a… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found… — Naomi Weisstein Copy Share Image
“...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless. [ From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist' ]” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically. — David Barton Copy Share Image
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I believe the Bible tells a story we recognize as true. I don't just mean it tells an accurate story - though… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
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