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The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

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

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.