Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.
I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches. In the classrooms, you have to form citizenship, not people with religious beliefs, that corresponds to the private sphere.
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.
I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion.
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.
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
We had South African accents. I was a vegan. I was raised without religion. I was just the weirdest kid in this small town, so I got made fun of a lot for it.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.
I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.
Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
I dislike religion quite intensely. It's been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.