All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. Abdurrahman Wahid
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. Denis Diderot
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity. Maimonides
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. Albert Ellis
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. James Madison
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. Avicenna
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. George Santayana
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. George Santayana
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. Reinhold Niebuhr
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. William Hazlitt
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. Dennis Prager
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. Lucretius
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. David Hume
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
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. Swami Sivananda
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. David Herbert Lawrence
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it. Quentin Tarantino
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism. Marilyn Manson