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All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way. ↗

— Epictetus

#every man #get #heaven #his #man

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. ↗

— Anatole France

#great #great service #love #making #religion

Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics? ↗

— Shashi Tharoor

#religion

religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble. ↗

— Régis Debray

#religion

Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy. ↗

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

#religion

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions. ↗

— Franklin Foer

#football-clubs #religion #soccer #religion

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#bandied #became #believe #element #evident

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#america #because #civil #civil liberties #destruction

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings. ↗

— Ric Flair

#feelings #hurt #none #written

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#believe #book #characteristic #energy #force