Eldest Quote by Walter Savage Landor

“Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions…

— Frank Herbert

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed…

— John Henrik Clarke

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

— Jacob Neusner

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with…

— James Martineau

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which…

— Bertrand Russell

Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality.

— Ayn Rand

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

— Anonymous

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and…

— Emile Durkheim

Religion is a belief in supernatural entities or forces that have an effect on the natural world - A belief in forces that are…

— Greta Christina

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

— Swami Vivekananda

Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have…

— Dalai Lama

By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated…

— Bertrand Russell