Religion Quotes

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx

ReligionOpiateMasses

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.

Karl Marx

ReligionHappinessRealIllusion

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

Karl Marx

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The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

Karl Marx

ReligiousWorldReflexReal

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Karl Marx

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The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

Karl Marx

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To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

Karl Marx

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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

George Bernard Shaw

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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw

ReligionMillionaireDear

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are without affection.

Chanakya

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Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

Chanakya

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Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

Mother Teresa

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Religions are different roads converging on the same point.

M. K. Gandhi

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God has no religion.

M. K. Gandhi

GodReligionUniversalTruth

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

M. K. Gandhi

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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

M. K. Gandhi

ReligionSeparateBind

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

M. K. Gandhi

ReligionPoliticsKnow

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.

Rabindranath Tagore

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I doubt not that it [the Bible] is really ... the best cure for the Blues could one but take it according to the truth.

Abraham Lincoln

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