(Referring to Salvini) Those who wave rosaries in the streets should also remember that Hell exists.
Religion Quotes
Religion is a page where believers and unbelievers share space. Shakespeare and Milton lead, but Robert Ingersoll and the biologist Jerry Coyne are close behind, and the sourced favourites lean sceptical: Bertrand Russell in Sceptical Essays (1928) on moralists and Hell, Bierce in 1911 calling religion a daughter of Hope and Fear.
Three entries are flagged. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep” is credited to the missionary Jim Elliot, and the notes call it a paraphrase of the English clergyman Philip Henry (1631–1696). Newton’s remark that he could calculate the motions of heavenly bodies but not the madness of the people is disputed, and it is usually tied to the South Sea stock bubble. A line about Earth and Heaven credited to David Hare is flagged misattributed.
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.
Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.
There is, I'm happy to say, a religion of peace in this world, but it's not Islam.
Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection.
Everyone else besides the faithful already knows that religion has nothing useful to say to science.
In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit.
Be loyal unto death to your traditions, to your religion, to your language and to your people.
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.