Causes Quote by George Carlin

Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.

— George Carlin

Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and…

— Ida Tarbell

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

— Colin S. Smith

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

— Richard Dawkins

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

— Saul Bellow

The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing…

— Coleman Barks

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned…

— Indira Gandhi

“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently quite tolerant…

— Yuval Noah Harari

People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only…

— Nhat Hanh

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to…

— David Bentley Hart

“I said that the question about death, and more precisely, the confusion about death, lies at the very heart of human understanding, and in…

— Alexander Schmemann

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

— Neal Shusterman