Alienation Quote by Karen Armstrong

What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are…

— Anthony Storr

We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

— Barack Obama

Until power is made subservient to morality, humanity will continue to suffer.

— Tasneem Hameed

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

— Steven Weinberg

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that…

— Martin Jacques

“The divisions in our world are not a result of religious or of culture, but are politically based. There is an imbalance of power…

— Karen Archer

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on…

— Andrew Harvey

We have to get awakened to the fact that in recent decades, great destruction has been caused to our moral values as a result…

— Nirmala Srivastava

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

— Thomas Keating

Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

— Marianne Williamson

We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But…

— E. Haldeman-Julius