It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion. – Paul Nurse
There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season. – Ernest Istook
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. – Peter Jennings
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. – Ben Kingsley
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. – Tom Brokaw
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them. – H. P. Blavatsky
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. – Hans Kung
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. – Jeremy Bentham
Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion. – Ville Valo
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. – Walter Savage Landor
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! – Sydney Smith
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. – Henri Bergson
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind. – Steven Seagal
Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism. – David Eagleman
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. – Noah Webster
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort. – Jewel
I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people – not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion. – Richard John Neuhaus
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. – Shirin Ebadi
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion. – Mary Astell
