- Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
- Alan Watts on Religion
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
- Christopher Hitchens on Religion
- Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
- Tom Robbins 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
- Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
- Joyce Cary 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
- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Religion
- Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'
- Tommy Chong on Religion
- Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
- Bertrand Russell on Religion
- Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
- Jonathan Sacks on Religion
- Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.
- Huston Smith on Religion
- Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti on Religion
- Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
- Frederick II on Religion
- Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
- Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
- Alfred North Whitehead on Religion
- Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Religion
- Religion is the opium of the masses.
- Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
- John Henrik Clarke on Religion
- Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
- Karl Barth on Religion
- Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
- Immanuel Kant on Religion
- Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
- Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
- Allen Tate on Religion
- Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
- Gouverneur Morris 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
- Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
- Henri Bergson on Religion
- Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Religion
- Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
- Octavia Butler on Religion
- Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
- Daniel Radcliffe on Religion
- Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
- Frances Wright on Religion
- Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Religion
- Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
- B. R. Ambedkar on Religion
- Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
- Billy Sunday on Religion
- Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
- Studs Terkel on Religion
- Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
- Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
- Frank Herbert on Religion
- Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
- Frederick Buechner on Religion
- Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
- Cyril Cusack on Religion
- Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?
- Jonathan Sacks on Religion
- Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
- Colin Hanks on Religion
- Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.
- Azar Nafisi on Religion
- Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
- Laurence Sterne on Religion
- Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
- Hosea Ballou on Religion
- Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
- Sojourner Truth on Religion
- Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
- Mark Hopkins on Religion
- Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
- Abbas Kiarostami on Religion
- Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
- Douglas William Jerrold on Religion
- Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
- Tony Campolo on Religion
- Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
- Abigail Van Buren on Religion
- Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
- Ezra Pound on Religion
- Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
- Bill Maher on Religion
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