"Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct."
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"Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion."
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"No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics."
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"Religion should be dearer than life itself."
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"Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?"
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"Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient."
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"Religion taught us to return good for evil."
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"Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power."
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"The source of nature is spirit."
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"It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed."
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"Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people."
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"This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously."
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"But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!"
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"The past is another planet."
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"Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them."
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"I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman."
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"If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs."
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"Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother."
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"The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions."
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"For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do."
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