America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious.… — Sam Savage Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I'd like everybody to be secular. I suppose I have to say politically I would like religion to become gentler and nicer… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The distinction between the religious and secular orders is a fundamental aspect of Christianity. This distinction is an innovation compared to Islam… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is always easier to believe if you are opposed to something, or actually suffering for your beliefs. Without perceived or real… — Peter Grey Copy Share Image
Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Arab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I think this is why the practice is such a comfort to secular urbanites like me-it's a technique, not a faith. You… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like… — Larry Charles Copy Share Image
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren't involved in… — Katherine Harris Copy Share Image
While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church,… — Leanne Payne Copy Share Image
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I've lived here [in Egypt] among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the… — Louis Mackey Copy Share Image
Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“Disputes that were secular in origin, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, have been allowed to fester and become “holy,” and once they… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
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