Secular Quotes

311 quotes by 254 authors

The public school has become the established church of secular society. — Ivan Illich
I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose… — Steve Israel
As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular. — Shahrukh Khan
I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And… — Anne Lamott
'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. — Eric Liu
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin… — Jon Meacham
The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an… — Nathan Myhrvold
You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke… — Bill O'Reilly
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom. — Nancy Pearcey
The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. — Dennis Prager
The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So… — Pat Robertson
The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded. — Salman Rushdie
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism… — Jonathan Sacks
Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today… — Jonathan Sacks
Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a - he was a… — Rick Santorum
A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the… — Marjane Satrapi
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. — Michael Shermer
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. — E. O. Wilson
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me… — E. O. Wilson
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation.… — Julian Baggini

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