All Quotes By Tag: Religion

“Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?”

“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”

“The thought manifests the word;The word manifests the deed;The deed develops into habit;And habit hardens into character;So watch the thought and its ways with care,And let them spring forth from loveBorn out of compassion for all beings.As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.”

“I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of religion as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Were I to enter on that arena, I should only add an unit to the number of Bedlamites.[Letter to Mathew Carey, 11 November 1816]”

“Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.”

“When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.”

“There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.”

“People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”

“It doesn’t matter that you didn’t believe in us,” said Mr. Ibis. “We believed in you.”

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”

“An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said.An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”

“Theology is ignorance with wings.”

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”