You look at it, but it is not to be seen; Its name is Formless. You listen to it, but it is not to be heard; Its name is Soundless. You grasp it, but it is not to be held; Its name is Bodiless. These three elude all scrutiny. And hence they blend and become one.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
-Mahatma Gandhi
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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
I’ll wear two swords, a sword of shakti (power) and a sword of bhakti (meditation).
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The foundation of Hindu religion has been laid on the pillar of tolerance. It
has revered all the rebels like Buddha, Kabira, Shankaracharya, Chanakya,
Dayanand Saraswati who had opposed the prevalent hypocrisies in their times.
It didn't kill them the way reformers like Jesus, Socrates or Mansoor were...
Then where did this Hindu fanaticism emerge from?... Perhaps in order to make
their businesses survive, it is being propagated by the Hindu religious heads.
-Deep Trivedi
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, which has so unfortunately divided man.
To hate man and love god seems to be the sum of all creeds.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
