Secular Quotes

311 quotes by 254 authors

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of… — Hannah Arendt
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out… — Karen Armstrong
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different… — Karen Armstrong
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. — Joseph Addison
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate… — Jimmy Carter
Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech. — Samuel Alito
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one… — Thomas Aquinas
We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development… — Abul Kalam Azad
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand… — Rebecca Goldstein
I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age… — Newt Gingrich
I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions… — Ravi Zacharias
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man… — Henry Ward Beecher
If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth. — Jerry Falwell
The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.' — Charles M. Schulz
Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an organic part, nothing… — Rajneesh
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is… — Karen Armstrong
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. — Edward Alsworth Ross
In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it. I perceived the… — David Brainerd
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its… — Urbain Le Verrier
We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are… — Tim LaHaye

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