I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. Brian Eno on religion
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. Tori Amos on religion
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. Peter Ustinov on religion
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another. Art Linkletter on religion
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. Noah Webster on religion
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. Michael Moore on religion
Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. George Gurdjieff on religion
I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest. Daniel Radcliffe on religion
Religion leaves no room for human complexity. Daniel Radcliffe on religion
Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim. Pat Robertson on religion
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on religion
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on religion
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on religion
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on religion
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on religion
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. John Cornyn on religion
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. Muhammad Iqbal on religion