“We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.”
— Jeff Miller
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“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
— George Washington
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“Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.”
— B. R. Ambedkar
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“God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.”
— Robert South
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“How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?”
— Andrew Sullivan
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“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”
— Voltaire
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“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
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“There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.”
— Polly Toynbee
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“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.”
— Thomas Paine
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“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
— Honore de Balzac
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“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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