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“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”
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“Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.”
Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
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“A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'”
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“Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.”
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“The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.”
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“Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.”
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“I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?”
Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground”, p.278, A&C Black
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“The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.”
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“I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.”
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“Conscience without judgment is superstition.”
