No Religion Quotes

Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Woman is the light of God.

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.