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This is my simple
religion
. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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Religion
is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world…It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
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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
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Religion
has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
Larry Flynt
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But even in the Christian
religion
, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
Ernest Holmes
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Revealed
religion
is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
Moses Mendelssohn
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But is it not the fact that
religion
emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the
religion
cannot be healthy?
Harriet Martineau
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Well! some people talk of morality, and some of
religion
, but give me a little snug property.
Maria Edgeworth
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by
religion
.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Religion
, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce
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Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy,
religion
.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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All outward forms of
religion
are almost useless, and are the cause of endless strife.... Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
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Religion
is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or
religion
, without controversy.
Lyman Beecher
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A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes,
religions
, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace
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Much advance publicity was made for the address the Master would deliver on The Destruction of the World and a large crowd gathered at the monastery grounds to hear him.
The address was over in less than a minute. All he said was:
"These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence,
religion
without fearlessness and worship without awareness."
Anthony de Mello
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Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the
religion
in which he died.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
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In regard to the terrors as well as the superstitions and immoralities of
religion
, it will not do to urge that they are due only to the imperfections of the men who professed the various
religions
. If
religion
cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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I can not be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance. He is not my Sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he never shall receive it. To the other points whereof I am accused, I freely confess them all. As Governor of my country I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own. If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of
religion
, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.
William Wallace
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I have no
religion
, and at times I wish all
religions
at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs
religion
to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our
religion
? We have none.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Religion
is organized to satisfy and guide the soul—politics does the same thing for the body.
Joyce Cary
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A
religion
old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a
religion
will emerge.
Carl Sagan
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it
religion
, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honoré de Balzac
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There is no
religion
without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their
religion
, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.
Anna Sewell
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