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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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"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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"I don't want to spend the next two years in holiday Inns." »Walter Frederick Mondale
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"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected." »Jimmy Cannon
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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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"Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm." »Pamela Ribon
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"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production." »Ayn Rand
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"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living" »Amanda Bradley
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"Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning." »W. B. Yeats
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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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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!" »John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs
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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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"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." »Rita Rudner
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"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters." »Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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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"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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"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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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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"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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"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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"Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal." »Lenore Hershey
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