Religion Quotes

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Cicero

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

Robert Jackson

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non - Westerners never do.

Samuel P. Huntington

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

John Adams

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

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon

England has forty - Two religions and only two sauces.

Voltaire

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ?

Marie Henri Beyle, (1783 - 1842)

I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

Robert Millikan

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Llama