#religion

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#culture #far #laws #maintaining #moral

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ↗

— Stendhal

#fear #few #founded #many #religions

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#christian religion #ever #me #memory #my own

I'm not really into religion. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#into #really #religion

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#appreciate #atheist #commandments #contains #document

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#against #cases #chief #chief justice #commandments

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality. ↗

— David Friedrich Strauss

#consciousness #evident #god #him #human

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#change #communism #domination #excuses #first

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#argument #comes #go #hand #i

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#conciliation #control #course #direct #human