religion

"In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs."

"The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do."

"They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear."

"O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento."

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."

"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization."

"Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer"

"للعبد رب هو ملاقيه ،وبيت هو ساكنه ،فينبغى له أن يسترضى ربه قبل لقائه ،ويعمر بيته قبل انتقاله إليه."

"With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)"

"I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world."

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian."

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."[My Uncle Sosthenes]"

"If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God."

"It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies."

"We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough."

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

"It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them."

"That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain."

"How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape."

"I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'"-"