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• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

  Aristotle

  Topics in Politics, Religion

  Tags in Morality

• Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

  Sam Harris

  Topics in Religion, Uncategorized

  Tags in Mystery, Faith, Science

• A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Life, Religion

  Tags in Science

• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Funny, God, Religion

  Tags in Premature, Science

• In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken’, and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Politics, Religion

  Tags in School, Argument, Science

• I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in God, Life, Politics, Religion

  Tags in Science

• An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

  Saadi Shirazi

  Topics in Enemy, God, Kindness, Religion

  Tags in Friend

• Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

  Saadi Shirazi

  Topics in English Proverbs, God, Religion

  Tags in Patience, Before

• The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Politics, Religion

• The Roots of Violence:
  Wealth without work,
  Pleasure without conscience,
  Knowledge without character,
  Commerce without morality,
  Science without humanity,
  Worship without sacrifice,
  Politics without principles.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Humanity, Politics, Religion, Sacrifice, Work

  Tags in Nonviolence, Worship, Ethics, Sharing, Character, School, Violence, Virtue, Conscience, Science

• Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Inspirational, Politics, Religion

  Tags in Economics

• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

  Jay Leno

  Topics in Politics, Religion

• In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Belief, Politics, Religion, Truth

  Tags in Authority, Opinion

• When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Inspirational, Politics, Religion, Truth

  Tags in Change/Growth, Faith, Reason

• Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in God, Inspirational, Politics, Religion

• To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Faith

• I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

  Martin Luther

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Faith

• It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in God, Religion

  Tags in Faith

• My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.

  Martin Scorsese

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Nothing

• Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.

  Pope Francis

  Topics in Religion