Birth Quote by Emile Durkheim

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be…

— B. R. Ambedkar

Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

— Edmund Burke

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

— Octavia E. Butler

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

— Irving Kristol

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

— Ross Douthat

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

— Ulrich Beck

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if…

— Gore Vidal

Society is just a structure with no soul. The soul is of the individual. One individual outweighs all societies. And, one individual's revolution outweighs…

— Rajneesh

Religion is life essential.

— George MacDonald

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a…

— Sigmund Freud

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of…

— Tony Blair