religion

"It is absurd to suppose, if this is God’s world, that men must always be selfish barbarians."

"What an extraordinary combination was Stella Adler - a goddess of full of magic and mystery, a child full of innocence and vulnerability."

"Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of…"

"Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one …"

"How much is your sin going to cost me?"

"The excellence of a thing is the end for which it was made; as of a star to give light, and of a plant to be fruitful. So the excellence of a Christian is to answer the end of his creation, which is t…"

"Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening."

"I have no doubt that in heaven the angels will regard the blessed as a necessary evil."

"There are three possible relationships one can have with God:"My God", "I am God", "I am God's". The last one is best, because it does not tempt pride."

"One fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself… In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction."

"Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide."

"'We believe in Allah, we take the Koran as a sacred book. In our land we broke the power of infidel Rum, in his own land we struck down her Sultan whom men called the Pope, in Malta we slew the Knight…"

"Murder of non-Muslims is a merit : “The murder of infidels is counted a merit in a Muslim. It is not necessary that he should have his own passion or mortify his flesh, it is not necessary for him to …"

"News of the atrocities, which have recently been perpetrated by the Turkish king in Constantinople and have now been divulged, has so inflamed a man who once saw that region, with zeal for God, that a…"

"This is certainly the Will of the Supreme God, who is the Author of this world and its Father, , that the whole human race should agree together and be joined in a certain affectionate union by, as it…"

"The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God’s or Jesus’s commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divi…"

"Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe."

"In opposition to the aristocratic valuation the slave morality then is this: The wretched alone are the good; those who suffer and are heavy laden, the sick and the ugly, they are the only pious ones.…"

"Sacredness is the essence of religion. You know, a great river may become polluted as it flows past a town, but if the pollution isn’t too great, the river cleanses itself as it goes along, and within…"

"There is certainly a religion which belongs to the physical form, and which should be regarded in degree as much as that which belongs to the soul. It is as much a duty for every man and woman to perf…"