Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action. Frank Murphy on religion
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion. Naguib Mahfouz on religion
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 on religion
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 on religion
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity. Maimonides on religion
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. Albert Ellis on religion
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. James Madison on religion
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. Avicenna on religion
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. George Santayana on religion
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 on religion
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana on religion
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. Reinhold Niebuhr on religion
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. William Hazlitt on religion
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. Dennis Prager on religion
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. Lucretius on religion
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 on religion
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 on religion
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. Swami Sivananda on religion
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 on religion
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 on religion