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.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

God has no religion.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.