Non Religious Quotes:

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

- Elayne Boosler

topic: Religious, My Family, Non Religious, Observant

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Death, God, Wisdom, Anti Religious, Intelligence And Education

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Men, Rewards, Way, Science Religion, Modern Physics

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Religious, Atheist, Religion, Anti Religious, Theism

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

- Steven Weinberg

topic: Atheism, Looks, Invisible, Anti Religious, Subtle Atheist

If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Thinking, People, World, Non Religious

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Life, God, Acceptance, Theocracy, Deism

A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency - issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights - the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.

- Gregory S. Paul

source: "Why do Americans still dislike atheists?". www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2011.

topic: Religious, Atheist, Children, Science Research, Environmental Degradation

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

- Paul Kurtz

topic: Religious, Philosophy, Atheism, Ethical Values, Secular Humanism

The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Rights, Government, Law, Theocracy, State Government

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their [NOT our!] religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.

- George Washington

topic: Christian, Religious, Spring, Our Founding Fathers, God And Country

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Country, Religious, Religion, Our Founding Fathers, Deist

Israel is a very young country, a cultural melting pot, and unlike the structured life of the Orthodox Jews, I grew up in a non-religious part of society where people were totally open to new experiences on many levels. I learned that when things are missing, you invent them.

- Noma Bar

topic: Country, Religious, Israel, Non Religious, Melting Pot

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Truth, Freedom, Mistake, State Government, Deism

As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

- John Adams

topic: Christian, Country, Religious, State Government, Deism

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Christmas, Heart, Humorous Christmas, Family Holiday

All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones. I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.

- Chapman Cohen

source: "Atheist Acrimonious" by David M. Mandell, Vervante, (p. 176), 2008.

topic: Religious, Believe, Men, Non Religious

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Religious, Believe, People, Humanistic, Golden Rule

A lot of arguments happen among religious and non religious people about the question of who's going to hell and who's going to heaven and uh, a lot of times Christians get into this argument by saying 'we have the only way to heaven.' And uh, people often ask me what do I think is the way to heaven. I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus' coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.

- Brian D. McLaren

topic: Christian, Religious, Jesus, Non Religious

In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.

- Gretchen Rubin

source: "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. January 15, 2009.

topic: Spiritual, Religious, People, Spiritual Beliefs, Church Attendance

It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you are a Jew from morning to night. We don't even have to think about it, just as a Dutch citizen doesn't spend his whole day thinking about the fact that he is a Dutch citizen. It's a given.

- Tommy Lapid

topic: Religious, Morning, Night, Non Religious, Diaspora

When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Religious, Art, Children, Sacrilegious, Non Religious

Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who hated their religion. The reason why they use the name Israel, the Star of David, hijacking, stealing the identity of Judaism and the Jewish people is in order to gain a legitimacy for their existence that should lead people to say, 'oh, it is God given to them' and that they should use fear and intimidate people from speaking out against their actions because they will call those that do anti Semitic; it couldn't be anything further from the Truth.

- Yisroel Dovid Weiss

topic: Religious, Stars, Islamic, Anti Semitic, Zionism

The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.

- Gotz Aly

topic: Religious, Class, Wings, Modern Age, Non Religious

In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious formulation. Religious fundamentalists in the United States have waged a campaign against secular humanism, claiming that it is a rival "religion" and seeking to root it out from American public life. Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

- Paul Kurtz

topic: Religious, Philosophy, Roots, Ethical Values, Secular Humanism

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers of various kinds, including the non-religious and, interestingly, a significant number of Jewish thinkers (Buber, Rosenzweig, Taubes, and others).

- George Pattison

topic: Religious, Believe, Communication, Non Religious, Significant Numbers

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

- Orhan Pamuk

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Religious, Literature, Complicated, Religious Family, Non Religious