85 Irreligious Quotes
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Famous Irreligious Quotes
I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now. — Anandi Gopal Joshi
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. — Martin Amis
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god. — Mark Twain
No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed. — Ab-Soul
To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion. — Omar Khayyam
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. — Albert Einstein
God has no religion. — Mahatma Gandhi
Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality. — Carl F. H. Henry
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. — Thomas Jefferson
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. — Swami Vivekananda
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. — Hypatia
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk. — Thomas A. Edison
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. — H. L. Mencken
Short Irreligious Quotes
- There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion. — J. I. Packer
- Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives — Dennis Prager
- To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious. — William Penn
- For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities. — Rodney Stark
- The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards. — Richard M. Nixon
- To the irreligious person heaven would be hell. — John Henry Newman
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
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
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
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
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
Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world. — Ambrose Bierce
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion. — Robert Jackson
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion. — C. S. Lewis
You can't say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma. — Reinhold Niebuhr
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
Non Religious Quotes
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson
A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture. — Alan Hirsch
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. — Albert Einstein
Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere. — Gad Saad
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
One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown — Marcy Kaptur
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
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. — Steven Weinberg
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. — George Washington
We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them. — Timothy Keller
Non Believer Quotes
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable. — Emmanuel Levinas
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. — Mahatma Gandhi
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history. — H. G. Wells
Remember: 65, 85, 95, 100 percent. Decreasing raises and ending on non-round numbers will get your counterpart to believe that he’s squeezing you for all you’re worth when you’re really getting to the number you want. — Chris Voss
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington. — Charles Koch
If Elon Musk hadn't bought Twitter, shadowbanning would still be happening. Twitter would still be denying its existence. But now that it's exposed, they want you to believe the practice was well understood and the story is a non-revelation. — David O. Sacks
Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons. — Michael Shermer
In the world there are believers and then there are non-believers. For all of you non-believers out there, I have something to say to you...never underestimate the heart of a champion. — Rudy Tomjanovich
there are the non-believers, make believers and true believers! — Sister Souljah
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 Martin Amis |
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 Mark Twain |
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 Ab-Soul |
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 Omar Khayyam |
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 Leon Trotsky |
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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More Irreligious Quotes
That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious. — Robert Andrews Millikan
An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods. — Epicurus
Education ought everywhere to be religious education. At the same time, parents are farther bound to employ no instructors who will not educate their children religiously. To commit our children to the care of irreligious persons, is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves. — Timothy Dwight V
To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal. — John Stuart Mill
The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness. — Timothy Keller
Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who will instruct their children religiously. To commit children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves. — Timothy Dwight
Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be. — Halford Luccock
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature. — Ludwig Feuerbach
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion. — William James
We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious way. But I regret that Kant's path has not been followed. — Allen W. Wood
The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are the same. Through slightly different interpretations, they all think the same thing is going to happen, that the Earth is going to be perfected and that humans are going to do the work of perfecting it. — Christine Jennings
We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that religious people don't know that they are probably as flagrant in these misjudgments as irreligious people. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs. — Rodney Stark
I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are naturally of a kindly and hospitable temper, but there has been implanted among them an almost instinctive hate of the white man. They esteem us, with rare exceptions, such as some of the missionaries, the most barbarous, treacherous, irreligious, and devilish creatures on the earth. — Herman Melville
Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious? — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities. — Eric Hoffer
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed. — Daniel Berrigan
Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day. — Timothy Keller
I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth. — Swami Vivekananda
Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city. — Charles Loring Brace
It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them. — Roy Fuller
We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration. — John Keats
So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious. — Herbert Spencer
The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious? — Ravi Zacharias
I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve. — Albert Einstein
Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious. — Timothy Keller
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