Aliens Quote by Vanessa L Ochs

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I became religious, it was full-force for me. And, through the lifestyle of being out on the road with non-Jewish musicians, in non-Jewish…

— Matisyahu

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“[When things go badly] Instead of becoming alienated from their faith in God, wouldn't it make more sense for them to become alienated from…

— William Sloane Coffin

Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon the strength…

— Tim DeChristopher

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is…

— George Clinton

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

— Diane Ackerman

I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.

— Andrew Garfield

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime,…

— H. P. Lovecraft

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive…

— Alain de Botton

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

— Sigmund Freud

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

— Elaine Pagels