Top 100 No Religion Quotes
#1. Religion that is confined to the sanctuary is worse than no religion at all, for it is false.
C. Hassell Bullock
#2. There's no religion but sex and music.
Sting
#3. The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.
Franz Grillparzer
#4. Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.
Eskinder Nega
#5. Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.
Barack Obama
#6. Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.
John Wesley
#7. His own mortality held only an intellectual fascination for him, a dry luster; and, having no religion, he did not believe in ghosts.
Eleanor Catton
#8. Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.
George Amos Dorsey
#9. I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat
George Bernard Shaw
#10. I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#11. There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.
Elaine Pagels
#13. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion ... But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#14. Where the teaching is corrupt or is despised, there is no religion approved by God.
John Calvin
#15. Wherever there is kashay, there is no religion of the Vitarag at all. God does not want one to renounce anything. One needs to become free from kashays. Kashay-free state is considered the religion of moksha, while renouncing is considered religion of the world.
Dada Bhagwan
#16. You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
William S. Burroughs
#17. No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Annie Besant
#18. No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.
Sri Chinmoy
#19. If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.
Thomas Jefferson
#21. No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth
Blaise Pascal
#22. The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
Maajid Nawaz
#23. I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.
Brad Pitt
#24. It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. No religion can fully accept another religion, that's the one belief all religions share
Ben Mitchell
#26. No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.
Robert Owen
#28. I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
Andrea Riseborough
#29. A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
Kahlil Gibran
#30. A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.
Reza Aslan
#32. I get the concept, all right
like, why would God make me gay and then tell me it's a sin to be gay? But the freethinkers were confusing me. ' I don't get it. They have no religion, but they sort of believe in God, but they don't believe in faith?
Robin Reardon
#33. No religion,
I'm just so explicit,
I coexist in places you would never know existed.
Ab-Soul
#34. Government ... may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another ... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality ...
Abe Fortas
#35. No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
Hanya Yanagihara
#36. A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all - and more amusing.
C.S. Lewis
#37. No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.
Alfred North Whitehead
#38. Terrorism has no religion is a theory, and the religion of terrorism is a real threat and practical thing.
Satyendra Singh 'Shyamal'
#39. Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there.
Dada Bhagwan
#40. I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no science, no writings which will lead your mind back to Spirit. Today I speak this way, tomorrow that, but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
Laozi
#41. I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.
Anjelica Huston
#42. The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#44. I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish.
Sarah Silverman
#45. Arr, reality's a dirty place with no religion in it.
Stephen King
#47. INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.
Ambrose Bierce
#48. No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Felix Adler
#49. No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country ... No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it's elimitnated. I want to make that point clear ...
Malcolm X
#51. I grew up with absolutely no religion at all, and it was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't have to unlearn anything.
Louise Hay
#52. No religion has a separate God showering grace only on those who profess to abide by that faith.
Sathya Sai Baba
#53. A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things
Aliette De Bodard
#54. The picture has no religion, no caste, no name,
And the best part about it is that the picture stays the same.
Adhish Mazumder
#55. The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
Avicenna
#56. No religion is better than an unnatural one.
William Penn
#57. Any one in love
will have no religion.
Rumi
#58. Be a truth seeker. Go after it with all your might. Let it seep deep into the marrow of your soul. For it will be the only thing to save you in the end. No savior, no religion, no teacher, no guru can do that. You must do it. It is a lifelong pursuit while on this earth.
Dara Reidyr
#61. I grew up with no religion and she had all religion. She celebrates everything and I celebrate nothing.
Caroline Kepnes
#63. A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.
William Bennett
#65. I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the Buddhist religion, I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the Christian religion, I think there's a lot of great beliefs in no religion. It just depends on how you feel on the inside.
Cristian Machado
#66. In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.
Rumi
#67. I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.
Bertrand Russell
#68. I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#69. My dad's Jewish and my mum is Christian, so I grew up with no religion. Just whatever religion I wanted.
Nikki Reed
#70. No religion with a universal message ... under one flag can even momentarily entertain the idea of employing force to spread its message. Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Force can bend heads, but not minds.
Mirza Tahir Ahmad
#72. Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.
Bob Dylan
#74. There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.
Ichabod Spencer
#75. I don't have any religion. I'm Hebrew by nationality. My religion is just God. I have no religion, I just believe in the Most High.
Killah Priest
#76. Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
Daniel Morgan
#77. A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
D.H. Lawrence
#78. You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields.
Sophal Ear
#79. Monstrous wars that had killed tens of thousands of innocent people weren't enough to inspire enlightened self-interest. Tiny loans, on the other hand, were. Money has no religion.
Bob Harris
#81. Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.
Julia Ward Howe
#82. It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent in it. If thou be of the truest religion in the world, and are not true thyself to that religion, the religion is good, but it is none of thine.
Richard Baxter
#83. People sometimes ask me , what religion are you ? i always answer by saying, 'i am a little part of all religions and and a big part of no religion
Osho
#84. I have no religion,' says Borneau, 'but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.' Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
Jules Renard
#86. The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
Salman Rushdie
#87. The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.
Al-Ma'arri
#88. I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.
Sarah Silverman
#89. It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied.
Santosh Kalwar
#90. Om was there in the existence, when no religion was formed or founded. It will be there in the existence, if all the religions are demolished.
Banani Ray
#91. No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.
William Ernest Hocking
#92. There is no religion
There is no reality or lack of reality
There is no start or finish
There is no me or you
There is only everything
And the only thing that is that reality
Is divinity itself
And it is all for the love of God.
Steve Vai
#93. You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
Daniel Dennett
#94. Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
John Lennon
#95. It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the existing religion but was convinced that no religion is no longer needed.
Leo Tolstoy
#96. We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
Frances Wright
#98. I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
Rumi
#99. No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.
Pratibha Patil
