I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Salman Rushdie

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Honore de Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch Spinoza

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
Tom Brokaw

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Ramakrishna

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
Eldridge Cleaver

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Frank Herbert

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank Herbert

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.
James Caan

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
Kofi Annan

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
Jurgen Habermas

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
Studs Terkel

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
Erykah Badu