Altruism Quote by Jonathan Sacks

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

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they…

— Frans de Waal

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from…

— Robert Wright

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful,…

— Mary Douglas

“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to think that…

— Edward O. Wilson

I think religious individualism doesn't fulfill impulses toward community and solidarity and it doesn't necessarily work for people when things go really bad.

— Ross Douthat

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

— Theodore Schroeder

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

— H. Richard Niebuhr

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

— Garry Marshall

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

— Cyril Cusack