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RELIGION: The role of religion should be to inculcate a sense not of infallibility but of humility. (Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1892-1971)

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, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

RELIGION: The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. Only learning what one does not know can rescue one from the lost world in which everyone claims to have THE answer. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION: Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION: The role of religion should be to inculcate a sense not of infallibility but of humility. (Unknown Source)

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. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION: I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION: Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life -- except religion. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION: If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION: One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION: It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION: So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. (Unknown Source)

RELIGION: True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. (Louis Nizer, U.S. lawyer, author, artist, lecturer, and advisor to those in the worlds of politics, business, and entertainment, 1902-1994)

RELIGION: When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps. Too often in the history of religion, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hated in the name of the God of love, and practiced cruelty in the name of the God of compassion. (Jonathan Sachs, British rabbi, philosopher, and scholar, Born 1948)

RELIGION: Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life -- except religion. (Christopher Hitchens, Anglo-American columnist, social critic, and journalist, 1949-2011)

RELIGION: So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, 1850-1919)

RELIGION: I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. (Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

RELIGION: If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. (Thomas Szasz, U.S. professor of psychiatry and author, 1920-2012)

RELIGION: It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. (Robert A. Heinlein, U.S. science-fiction author, 1907-1988)

RELIGION: Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)

RELIGION: My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)

RELIGION: My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

RELIGION: When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps. Too often in the history of religion, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hated in the name of the God of love, and practical cruelty in the name of the God of compassion. (Jonathan Sachs, British rabbi, philosopher, and scholar, Born 1948)

RELIGION: O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)

RELIGION: Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

RELIGION: It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. (Evelyn Waugh, English writer of novels, travel books, and biographies, 1903-1966)

RELIGION: There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience, and recent scientific findings. (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

RELIGION: All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. (Henry Clay, U.S. statesman and orator, 1777-1852)

RELIGION: All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All religions, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. (Henry Clay, U.S. statesman and orator, 1777-1852)

RELIGION: Someone is Hindu, someone is Muslim, someone is Christian / Everyone is hell-bent on not becoming a human being. (Nida Fazli, Indian Hindi and Urdu poet, lyricist and dialogue writer, 1938-2016)

RELIGION: I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

RELIGION: Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

RELIGION: As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. (Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

RELIGION: The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic. (Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

RELIGION: Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. (Alan Watts, British philosopher who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. 1915-1973)

RELIGION: Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

RELIGION: When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. (Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)

RELIGION: With soap baptism is a good thing. (Robert Ingersoll, U.S, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)

RELIGION: There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. (Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist who was a committed socialist, 1880-`964)

RELIGION: Religion is the opiate of the people. (Karl Marx, German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary whose name is associated with the social theory - Marxism, 1818-1883)

RELIGION: I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

RELIGION: If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. (Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012)

RELIGION: I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays. (Henry Youngman, English-American comedian and musician, 1906-1988)

RELIGION: One religion is as true as another. (Henry Burton, English puritan whose ears were cut off for writing pamphlets attacking the views of the British Archbishop, 1578-1648)

RELIGION: B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. (Unknown source)

RELIGION: I don't see why religion and science can't get along. What's wrong with counting our blessings with a computer? (Robert Orben, U.S. professional comedy writer, magician, and presidential speech writer, Born 1927)

RELIGION: A good life is the only religion. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian, 1608-1661)