Quotes About Irreligion

#1. Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.

Robert Graves

#2. Rhode Island, a colony that the mainstream Puritans denounced as "a cesspool of vile heresies and irreligion,

Bernard Bailyn

#3. We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

C.S. Lewis

#4. 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

#5. Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion ... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.

Charles Eliot Norton

#7. The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

Robert Jackson

#8. When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.

William Cobbett

#9. You make irreligion a religion. Leave the hypocrites up to me.

Max Lucado

#10. Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

Joseph Addison

#13. The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.

Timothy J. Keller

#14. One's Use of Life', if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion).

Dada Bhagwan

#15. Laura was not in any way religious. She was not even religious enough to speculate towards irreligion.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#16. To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

George Berkeley

#17. Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. When the mind gets a solution [settlement], it is considered religion. It is considered irreligion when the mind does not get a solution.

Dada Bhagwan

#19. Religion (dharma) is decrease in kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) and increase of kashay is irreligion (adharma). When Kashay goes away (completely) is the religion of the Self (Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

#20. The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed,
And my head, worn out with love, at rest
In my hands, and my hands full of dust.

Ted Hughes

#21. So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

Thomas A. Edison

#22. All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

#23. He held on to me so tightly it was as if he was trying to stop my heart from breaking by holding it together.

Jane Casey

#24. The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

Umberto Eco

#25. I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.

Matt Chandler

#26. Nothing in Christianity is original.

Dan Brown

#27. In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts.

Rudy Giuliani

#28. At a certain point, professors stopped being usefully sensitive and became more like careful retailers who have it as a cardinal point of doctrine never to piss the customer off.

Mark Edmundson

#29. A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

Deb Caletti

#30. 'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby.

Deb Caletti

#31. Blind faith is not real religion my friend.

Abhijit Naskar

#32. There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.

Ken Liu

#33. Death, after all was the answer to everything, wasn't it? The

Brian L. Porter

#34. Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Sidney Hook

#35. To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

Eric Hoffer

#36. There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#37. I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

Yves Tanguy

#38. Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.

Pope Francis

#39. Christians should seek the best information available about the earth over which we have been appointed stewards.

Douglas J. Moo

#40. The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.

Mahatma Gandhi