Beliefs Quote by Frans de Waal

Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and…

— Emile Durkheim

Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to…

— B. F. Skinner

“religions have much, much more in common than they like to admit. The beliefs are almost always the same; it’s just that the histories…

— David Levithan

The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that…

— Jonathan Haidt

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

— Lawrence Wright

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

— Riane Eisler

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

— Jacob Neusner

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor…

— Jonathan Sacks

Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same…

— Dalai Lama

“Religious differences were often a barrier to close ties between Jews and Christians. The word religion comes from a Latin word meaning “to tie…

— Phyllis Goldstein

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

— Thomas Guthrie