117 Secularism Quotes
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Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality. — Carl F. H. Henry
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious. — Jon Stewart
Secularism must be applied everywhere, because that is how everyone will be able to live in peace with each other. — Manuel Valls
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — Shashi Tharoor
Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family. — Narendra Modi
Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system. — Harvey Cox
In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. — Gad Saad
Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not neutrality. Implicitly, it supports secularism. — Stephen V Monsma
In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism. — Gad Saad
Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you — Dennis Prager
Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere. — Gad Saad
Secularism is a term interpreted in many different ways by different people. For me, it has always been something very simple - putting India First — Narendra Modi
One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship. — Noam Chomsky
Short Secularism Quotes
- The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson
- Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India. — Manmohan Singh
- Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. — Benjamin Franklin
- Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India. — Mahatma Gandhi
- The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism. — Jim Wallis
- Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance. — Maajid Nawaz
- The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion. — William Bennett
- From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism. — Vidal Sassoon
- There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. — Ruth Hurmence Green
- Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins
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Anti Secularism Quotes
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. — George Bernard Shaw
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison
It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist. — Taslima Nasrin
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
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. — Thomas Jefferson
I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system. — Louis Farrakhan
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. — John Adams
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? — Dennis Prager
The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity. — Ron Paul
Secular Quotes
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality. — Soren Kierkegaard
Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told? — Paul Washer
Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us. — William Booth
When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied. — Ravi Zacharias
Truth is not obtained cheaply. It demands much time given to prayer and study of the Scriptures, followed by practical application in our daily lives. It must take priority over the many forms of cheap entertainment offered by our secular culture. It is a lifetime commitment. — Derek Prince
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. — Dennis Prager
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism — Peter L. Berger
The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists. — Boris Kodjoe
My family and I were welcomed to Canada more than 40 years ago. We sought and obtained refuge in a liberal, modern, and secular society, and put the ugliness of genocidal religious hate and associated tribalism behind us - or so we thought. — Gad Saad
I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights. — Steve Israel
Secular Humanism Quotes
Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others. — Hugo Black
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. — Tom Flynn
It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be a winner and a loser!.. There is no compromise with the enemy. There is no neutrality in this war! — John Hagee
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
Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East. — Dalia Mogahed
Secular humanism debases the human. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion. — Dennis Prager
It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism. — Billy Graham
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity. — Guenter Lewy
We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America. — Pat Buchanan
Secular Society Quotes
Secularism and pluralism are two of the defining ethos of Western societies. The former decouples religion from governmental institutions whilst the latter seeks to protect the rights of all citizens to freely practice their creed. — Gad Saad
Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs. — Fawn M. Brodie
The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life. — Timothy Keller
The public school has become the established church of secular society. — Ivan Illich
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. — Henry Van Dyke
In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith. — John Taylor Gatto
I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies. — Talal Asad
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. — Ulrich Beck
There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints will be labelled as heresy and blasphemy. Why? Because the society is built on religion - not freedom for all points of view. — Flemming Rose
Secular Music Quotes
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference. — Taraka Larson
Secular music was not allowed in our household. — Paul Brandt
It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head. — Charlie Musselwhite
I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts." — Kelly Clarkson
To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel. — Michael Gungor
When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it. — Natalia Kills
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More Secularism Quotes
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! — Mahatma Gandhi
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top? — Pat Robertson
More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation. — Marvin Olasky
I realized that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practiced from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact. — Maajid Nawaz
My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution. — Narendra Modi
The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt. — F. F. Bruce
I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith. — Brian Littrell
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization — Peter L. Berger
In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer, eating, sleeping, nursing, crude dentistry, even bodily functions. In the secular West, where nothing is sacred, everything seems hidden; yet in Asia, where nothing is hidden, everything is sacred. — Steve McCurry
If one wishes to forgo the protection afforded by secular pluralism, then perhaps Western liberal democracies is not the right place for you to freely exercise your religion. — Gad Saad
Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own very short-term investigations, than the collective remembrances of the rest of humankind. — Vine Deloria Jr.
When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home. — Ramana Maharshi
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. — E. O. Wilson
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience. — Rebecca Goldstein
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