Civilization Quote by Naguib Mahfouz

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.

— Thomas Yellowtail

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

— Jacques Maritain

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

— Bill Maher

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

— Carroll Quigley

“If religion addresses a genuine sphere of understanding and human necessity, then it should be susceptible to progress; its doctrines should become more useful,…

— Sam Harris

We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

— Ernest Renan

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is…

— Rodney Stark

Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.

— Alija Izetbegovic

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is…

— Christopher Dawson

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

— Napoleon Bonaparte