A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people. B. R. Ambedkar
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. John Maynard Keynes
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Honore de Balzac
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. T. S. Eliot
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! William Blake
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. Blaise Pascal
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. James Madison
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. Orson Welles
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. Samuel Butler
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. Ramakrishna
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. Epictetus
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. Edmund Burke
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? Dwight L. Moody
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! Blaise Pascal
Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue. King Hussein I
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. Stephen Harper