Society Without Religion Quotes

#1. A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

Harold Wilson

#3. Religion in modern society is only artificially kept together and upheld by the Church and by those Governments to whose social or private interest it is that it should flourish.

Armin Vambery

#4. If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.

Lucas Samaras

#5. Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

Emile Durkheim

#6. Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations.

Aman Mojadidi

#7. Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life

Elena Ferrante

#8. Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life ... within a given age in a given society ... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal ... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

Jonathan Sacks

#10. Religion, when realized truly, can provide an extremely accurate moral compass to the human conscience, while politics on the other hand, when utilized properly can ensure the wellbeing of the society.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has held encounter with the divine as central is crucial. Ancient humanity provides us with an excellent laboratory for gaining such an understanding.

Roger D. Woodard

#12. The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.

Adolf Hitler

#13. This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.

Nick Love

#14. The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Kit Williams

#15. Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

B.R. Ambedkar

#16. The separation of religion from the practical affairs of society is a convenient doctrine for those who fear that social change would threaten of modify their own political and social self-interest.

William Stringfellow

#17. The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

Gore Vidal

#18. The brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church teaches about God or man or society or the person of Jesus Christ.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#19. Politics, religion and arrogance are problems of society but being a fanatic in any...makes you a danger to humanity.

Timothy Pina

#20. News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point to communist societies like the Soviet Union - they worshipped blue jeans.

Stephen Colbert

#21. Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

Theodore Schroeder

#22. Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Fulton J. Sheen

#23. Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

Johann Georg Hamann

#24. That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.

Swami Vivekananda

#25. I'd love to associate with a humankind that doesn't need religion to control it. A community which instead educates its young with a strong moral guidance. I'm trusting that you can live within an acceptable moral framework without having to believe that you'll go to hell if you don't

Robert Breeze

#26. I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe
that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#27. Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#28. Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

Idries Shah

#29. Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Anita Brookner

#30. There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Will Durant

#31. In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

Peter Drucker

#32. If you find a need, reach out to help.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Jonathan Sacks

#34. Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society is predicated on the idea that religion must be surgically removed from culture.

William Anthony Donohue

#35. A religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values and rules with which to regulate a culture or society

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#36. Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond

#37. The practical common-sense of modern society, the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion, take, is the natural genius of the British mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#38. But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.

Roger Williams

#39. Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

Marilyn Manson

#40. Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family
in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.

Camille Paglia

#41. It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

Herbert Read

#42. The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

Nawal El Saadawi

#43. The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.

Sam Harris

#44. Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#45. In this age of humanism, man is seduced by society with the lie that he can become his own god ... the New Age movement is polluted with self and it will never bow before God - at least not until Christ returns.

Billy Graham

#46. The advent of postmodernism, the enshrinement of Darwinian orthodoxy in the educational systems of Western society, and the rise of blatant humanism as the religion-by-default of large subcultures have brought no end of new challenges to biblical sufficiency.

James R. White

#47. Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity.

Steven Storm

#48. We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Jeff Miller

#49. Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.

Lewis H. Lapham

#50. In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#51. Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

Anne Frasier

#52. What is Religion according to you?

"Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you.

Vishwas Mudagal

#53. Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

John Adams

#54. We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.

Tim Soutphommasane

#55. In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

Fyodor Stepun

#56. Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#57. Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away.

Ricky Martin

#58. That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?

Peter Washington

#59. There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now.

Greg M. Epstein

#60. The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Fulton J. Sheen