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Religions Quotes (page 69)

Charlotte Bronte quote: "Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not..."
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. Charlotte Bronte
Jean Cocteau quote: "It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is..."
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope. Jean Cocteau
What of art? It is a malady."Love? An illusion. Religion? The fashionable substitute for belief. What are you? To define is to limit. Oscar Wilde
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless. John Newton
A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it. Terry Prachett
What of art?" she asked."It is a malady."Love?"An illusion."Religion?"The fashionable substitute for belief."You are a sceptic."Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith."What are you"To defne is to limit. Oscar Wilde
When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. James Joyce
Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small. Carl Sagan
In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased. Christopher Hitchens
Philip Pullman quote: "The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake."
The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake. Philip Pullman
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of..."
The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow. Ralph Waldo Emerson
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. Arundhati Roy
I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. Matt Groening
However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism muststart with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether thatright is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. Howeverfar it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal powerand airtight roles within the family. Gloria Steinem
Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept. Wilhelm Reich

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