1,039 Quotes Regarding Religion


I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
B. R. Ambedkar

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
B. R. Ambedkar

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred Allen

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Honore de Balzac

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

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
Theodore C. Sorensen

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard Stern

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
E. O. Wilson

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Doug Coupland

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Bill Maher

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron