We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. – T. S. Eliot
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. – Bill Maher
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. – John Maynard Keynes
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. – Ambrose Bierce
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. – Ramakrishna
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. – Epictetus
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. – Edmund Burke
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. – Edmund Burke
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! – Blaise Pascal
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. – William Blake
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
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. – E. O. Wilson
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. – Bill Maher
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. – Francis Bacon
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! – Thomas Huxley
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. – Samuel Butler
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have. – Richard Dawkins
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. – Dave Barry
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. – Alexis de Tocqueville
