I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out..
Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion..
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection..
At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of….
Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there,….
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other….
Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worshi….
My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are very normal. We have an understandin….
In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be expl….
In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to take a religi….
I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with ….
In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religi….
To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way t….
Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the….
Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism..
Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so forth. So ….
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment,….
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality..
I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious..
The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and be….
Fourth, we will continue providing humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. This include….