All Quotes

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