Irreligion Quotes:

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

- Robert H. Jackson

source: Zorach v. Clauson (dissenting opinion) (1952)

topic: Country, Winning, Political, Irreligion

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

topic: Religion, Atheism, World, Irreligion, Great Faith

When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.

- William Cobbett

topic: Country, Order, Looks, Spires, Irreligion

Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.

- Robert Graves

topic: Religious, Home, Feelings, Irreligion, Trenches

What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.

- Krishnananda Saraswati

topic: Philosophy, Men, Thinking, Irreligion, Wrong Thinking

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

- Jon Stewart

source: "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 - ....

topic: Death, People, Religion, False Hope, Irreligion

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

topic: Running, Dear Ones, Leaving, Irreligion

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Girl, Wife, Religion, Irreligion

Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.

- David Bentley

topic: Religious, Powerful, Ignorance, Compelling Reason, Irreligion

One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.

- Charles Eliot Norton

topic: Giving Up, Atheism, May, Irreligion

One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Wrath, Safety, Atheism, Zealot, Irreligion

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

- George Berkeley

topic: Country, Men, Wish, Irreligion, Made For Each Other

You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

source: Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

topic: Giving, Answers, Nuclear, Irreligion

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

- Laurence Sterne

topic: Vices, Dishonesty, Murder, Irreligion, Ingratitude

No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Hurt, Pain, Cities, Frivolity, Irreligion

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Real, Miracle, Christianity, Irreligion

My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Growing Up, People, Parent, Irreligion, Chalice

the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

- George Eliot

topic: Christian, Attitude, Lying, Irreligion, Supposing That