Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.
— Voltaire
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Terrorism has no nationality or religion.
— Vladimir Putin
Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.
— Vinod Khosla
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
— Ville Valo
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
— Victoria Jackson
Toleration is the best religion.
— Victor Hugo
In my own life, my science and my religion are separate.
— Vera Rubin
Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
— Vera Farmiga
I know too much about religion to be religious, so to speak, and I am not that stupid, either.
— Varg Vikernes
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
— Van Morrison
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
— Vaclav Klaus
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
— Unknown
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
— Ulysses S. Grant
When it comes to matters of religion and state, Bayit Yehudi is more extreme than the ultra-Orthodox.
— Tzipi Livni
I'm not really any religion. I still study with Jehovah's Witnesses, so I say I'm Apostolic Pentecostal Jehovah's Witness Seventh-Day Adventist Jew.
— Tyka Nelson
Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.
— Virchand Gandhi
I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.
The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.
— Vincent Cassel
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
— Viktor E. Frankl
My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
— Victor LaValle
We grew up Amish, but my parents left the religion when I was a child. The Amish have lots of rules, and my dad thought many people in the faith were hypocritical because they'd tell others not to do something and then do it themselves.
— Verne Troyer
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
— Vanna Bonta
I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.
— Valerie June
We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.
— Uzodinma Iweala
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
— Umberto Eco
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
— Ulrich Beck
For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.
— Tyler, The Creator
I had a multicultural exposure; that's why I don't believe in a particular religion. I have respect for most because I grew up surrounded by so many. I don't judge people by that, and I feel extremely offended when people categorise based on race, religion, or gender.
— Twinkle Khanna
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'
I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'
— Ving Rhames
I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere.
Bollywood is a place which is completely free from caste, region and religion. Some people might work in the industry with the help of networking but I feel is that it's your artistic competence that gets you work in industry.
— Vijay Krishna Acharya
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.
It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.
— Vanilla Ice
Martial arts, for me, is not just some kind of job to gain some money or whatever. No, martial arts, for me, is my lifestyle, my religion, my philosophy... Martial arts are everything for me.
— Valentina Shevchenko
I have been trolled for my name, my marriage, my religion, even for my mother.
— Urmila Matondkar
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
— Uma Thurman
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom.
— Tyler Cowen
