Religious Justification Quotes

#1. It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

Karen Armstrong

#2. The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself that's a step in the right direction.

Luc Delahaye

#3. I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

Jonathan Sacks

#4. The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#5. There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. Truth about Love : You hate the person most whom you love the most & then more you hate, more you love them again & again.

Hemant Shah

#7. Lolita should make all of us - parents, social workers, educators - apply ourselves with still greater vigilance and vision to the task of bringing up a better generation in a safer world.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.

Pearl Abraham

#9. The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.

Richard Dawkins

#10. Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don't be upset when others decide you're an asshole.
[Blog post of July 26, 2011]

Jim C. Hines

#11. Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.

Richard Dawkins

#12. Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#13. There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

Frederick C. Beiser

#14. We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

Simon Le Bon

#15. We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common we call them 'religious'; otherwise, they are likely to be called 'mad', 'psychotic' or 'delusional' . . . Clearly there is sanity in numbers.

Richard Dawkins

#16. We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal education opportunities? We believe that it does.

Earl Warren

#17. I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense.

Lisa Jackson

#18. Prior to the exercise of regeneration and justification, whereby he is made right with God through the blood of Christ, there is not a single person, however religious or ethically moral he may be, who is righteous before God.

Various

#19. Just shut up and listen."
"Well since you ask so nicely ... ."
There was silence. I listened. He didn't say anything.
"Are we communicating through the Psychic Hotline or what?

Josh Lanyon

#20. There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

William Hazlitt