Quotations
Religion
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
- Voltaire
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
- Alan Wilson Watts
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
- Philip Pullman
I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
- Hannah Harrington

Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.

- J. Krishnamurti

Those who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niyamas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of shila (celibacy) and tapas (penance).

- Scriptures
Hatred and contempt, be it for a thing or a person, has no place in the 'Hindu' religion... Whereas these so-called Hindu saints are building number of ashrams by inculcating the unnecessary feeling of 'sinfulness' in you. What kind of Hindu are you and what kind of saints are these?
- Deep Trivedi
Earlier our spending was only confined to offerings made at the temples. But now, the greediness of the priests have increased so much that in the name of assurances, they have been robbing people by selling rings, holy threads and religious rites and rituals.
- Deep Trivedi
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
Those who are fundamentalists and refuse to listen to anything said against them, we call them terrorists. Don't you find similar traits in majority of our religious heads? If this wasn't true then why were Socrates, Mansoor and Jesus killed?
- Deep Trivedi
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