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"Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Life is a festival only to the wise." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world." »Jean Baudrillard
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"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." »Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman
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"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself." »Alfred Jules Ayer
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"Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation." »Manu
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"From a psychological point of view, when people go under pressure in life, be it economically or otherwise, they seek support from the people closest to them, usually religious or ethnic groups. They also start blaming other groups who have more control over the national resources. If the gap of power is wide, this will eventually create deep divisions in the nation. The divisions can take on new forms of conflict such as class warfare, ethnic, religious, political unrest and sometime civil war. The only effective protection against national divisions is an open socioeconomic system with a large and growing middle class" »Med Jones
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"I hope I never get so old I get religious." »Ingmar Bergman
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"Theists and atheists are equally religious." »Kedar Joshi
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"I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others." »William Orville Douglas
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." »Blaise Pascal
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"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters." »Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." »Rita Rudner
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"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious." »Tor Nørretranders, Mærk Verden (English title not known)
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"Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people." »Jean Guehenno
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"A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain." »Jessamyn West
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"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief." »Sigmund Freud
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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." »John Quincy Adams
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"People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die." »Saki
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"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not." »Eric Hoffer
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"The most stupid man is not the one who acts or speaks improperly, but he who consigns the steering wheel of his destiny to a religious man." »adelkeri
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"When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence So sweet is zealous contemplation." »William Shakespeare
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"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty." »Samuel Adams
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"Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance." »John Schumaker
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"Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal." »Lenore Hershey
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"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it." »John Dewey
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"When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join." »Elbert Hubbard
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