No Religion Quotes

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

Hurting people is my business.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.

Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

My own mind is my own church.

God save us from religion.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.