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  • Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
  • Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
  • What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
  • The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
  • In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
  • It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
  • The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
  • There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
  • This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
  • What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Thomas More For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.
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  • Voltaire If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • John Wesley The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Orwell As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • James Baldwin Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Voltaire When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Voltaire When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...today everything is commercialized--politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services....Everything has its price.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Thomas Wolfe A cult is a religion with no political power.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • John Selden A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Ezra Pound A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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