Religion quotes

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Religion is all bunk.