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Religious Quotes by Sam Harris
- My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's…
- While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable…
- Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
- Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
- Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time…
- The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the…
- A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet…
- We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations…
- The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a…
- In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We…
- It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
- Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the…
- Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
- The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the…
- It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting…
- Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
- [I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our…
- The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.
- Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious…
- The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so…
- On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We…
- Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to…
- While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by…
- While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it…
More Religious Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila