Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
‐‐ Tom Robbins
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
‐‐ Samuel Chase
Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.
‐‐ Francis Arinze
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
‐‐ Joyce Cary
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'
‐‐ Tommy Chong
Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell
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 mankind.
‐‐ James Martineau
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks
Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.
‐‐ Huston Smith
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
‐‐ Franz Werfel
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
‐‐ Frederick the Great
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
‐‐ Karl Marx
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion is the opium of the masses.
‐‐ Karl Marx
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
‐‐ Karl Barth
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
‐‐ Immanuel Kant
Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
‐‐ Karl Marx
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
‐‐ Allen Tate
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
‐‐ Gouverneur Morris
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
‐‐ Paul Tillich
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
‐‐ Henri Bergson
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
‐‐ Octavia Butler
Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
‐‐ Pauline Phillips
Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.
‐‐ Frans de Waal
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
‐‐ Frances Wright
Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.
‐‐ Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
‐‐ Frans de Waal
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
‐‐ Billy Sunday
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
‐‐ Studs Terkel
Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.
‐‐ David Josiah Brewer
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
‐‐ Hans Kung
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
‐‐ Frank Herbert
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
‐‐ Ezra Pound
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
‐‐ Frederick Buechner