Cracked Quote by Lionel Blue

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a…

— Laurence Housman

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in…

— Vladimir Putin

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

— Paul Nurse

In the early '90s, I was disillusioned after the blasts and riots in Mumbai. I was in college and started thinking that religion was…

— Amish Tripathi

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

— Maajid Nawaz

We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it…

— Amor Towles

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

— Lionel Blue

Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

— Hozier

We were still quite religious until I was about eight or nine. Then I watched my parents take a dramatic turn and discard all…

— Adrianne Lenker

When I was young, I was religious.

— Jonathan Kozol

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

— Carl Rogers