There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. – Havelock Ellis
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. – Ulrich Beck
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God. – Elizabeth I
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. – Billy Sunday
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. – Malcolm Muggeridge
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. – Shirin Ebadi
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. – Charles de Secondat
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. – Pearl S. Buck
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. – Hugh Hefner
Being a rock star is like being a cult leader – you really have to be in your own religion. – Courtney Love
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. – Swami Sivananda
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. – Annie Besant
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. – Neale Donald Walsch
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. – William Ralph Inge
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. – Margaret Atwood
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. – Harvey Milk
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. – Laurence Sterne
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. – Baruch Spinoza
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. – Muhammad Iqbal
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. – Charles Eastman
