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Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage.
DPDennis Potter1935–1994
- Anti-Religion
I don’t think I’ve found God, but I may have seen where gods come from.
Terry Pratchett1948–2015“I create gods all the time—now I think one might exist” (2008)
- God
I don’t have much truck with the “religion is the cause of most of our wars” school of thought because that is manifestly done by mad, manipulative and power-hungry men who cloak their ambition in God.
Terry Pratchett1948–2015“I create gods all the time—now I think one might exist” (2008)
- War & Peace
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
Ramakrishna1836–1886Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960) (152)
- Wisdom
You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
Ramakrishna1836–1886The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 514
- Advice
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
Ramakrishna1836–1886The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 111
- God
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004The Evil Empire (1983)
- Freedom
Superman is nothing more than a popular retelling of the Christ story, or Greek mythology.
Christopher Reeve1952–2004Caught in the Act: New York Actors Face to Face (1986) by Don Shewey and Susan Shacter, p. 18
- Christianity
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
- Christianity
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes.
Salman Rushdieborn 1947Herbert Reade Memorial Lecture (6 February 1990)
- Anti-Religion
- Ideas
I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion is anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Why I Am Not a Christian (1927), “The Emotional Factor”
- Anti-Religion
What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires⁠—desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. VI: International relations, p. 97
- Anti-Religion
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 110
- Christianity
The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I’ve noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There’s a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire⁠—poison and antidote.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970
- Christianity
I knew a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them that the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found that he was planting trees in his garden.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
- Christianity