I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion. Alice Walker on religion
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. Naguib Mahfouz on religion
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. Minna Antrim on religion
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges on religion
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. Carl Sandburg on religion
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. Lucretius on religion
Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. Paul Ryan on religion
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. Benito Mussolini on religion
Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need. Bill Maher on religion
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 on religion
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. John Burroughs on religion
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. Karen Armstrong on religion
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. Thomas Hardy on religion
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. Alice Walker on religion
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. Serj Tankian on religion
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. E. O. Wilson on religion
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. E. O. Wilson on religion
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. E. O. Wilson on religion
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. E. O. Wilson on religion
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. John Shelby Spong on religion