Religious Ideas Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever…
— Eugenie Scott
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India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as…
— Corliss Lamont
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I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that…
— Karl Popper
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I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture…
— Aldous Huxley
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Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable…
— Don Cupitt
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Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy…
— Sigmund Freud
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Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand…
— Amanda Marcotte
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Kirshna says its better to be a winner than a loser. It runs counter to what a lot of people whould think, because they have…
— Frederick Lenz
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Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical…
— Karen Armstrong
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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the…
— Joseph McCabe
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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…
— Sam Harris
Who Wrote These Religious Ideas Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Religious Ideas Quotes as follows: