„Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable.“
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk17
fondateur et le premier président de la République turque 1881 - 1938Citations similaires
„Media pundit John Gibson's controversial statements brought criticism when he referred to religions, other than his own, as "wrong". Christians tolerate those who are "following the wrong religion… as long as they're civil and behave"“
— John Gibson (media host) American radio talk show host 1946
http://mediamatters.org/items/200512010018
„Who science has and art
He has religion too
Who neither of them owns
Religion is his due.“
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, and politician 1749 - 1832
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830), Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion
As quoted in Jost Lemmerich's "Science and Conscience: The Life of James Franck" (2011), p. 261.
Variant translation: "The man who science has and art, He also has religion. But he who is devoid of both, He surely needs religion." (as quoted in "Homilies of science" by Paul Carus (1892) and The Open Court, Weekly Journal, Vol. II (1887).
„Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.“
— Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
„Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.“
— Denis Diderot French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713 - 1784
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)
„We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.“
— Arthur Stanley Eddington British astrophysicist 1882 - 1944
Science and the Unseen World (1929), Context: We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.<!--VII, p.68
„The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.“
— Thomas Paine, livre The Age of Reason
1790s, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795), Chapter III: Conclusion.
„A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.“
— Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
„All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.“
— Roger Ebert, Life Itself
Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Context: Raised as a Roman Catholic, I internalized the social values of that faith and still hold most of them, even though its theology no longer persuades me. I have no quarrel with what anyone else subscribes to; everyone deals with these things in his own way, and I have no truths to impart. All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it. I know a priest whose eyes twinkle when he says, “You go about God’s work in your way, and I’ll go about it in His.”
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„Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell, spirituality is for those who’ve been there.“
— David Bowie British musician, actor, record producer and arranger 1947 - 2016
„Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.“
— Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
1920s, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921)
„It is time for those who love liberal democracy to join hands with Islam's reformists. Here is a clue to who's who: Moderate Muslims denounce violence committed in the name of Islam but insist that religion has nothing to do with it; reformist Muslims, by contrast, not only deplore Islamist violence but admit that our religion is used to incite it.“
— Irshad Manji Feminist from Canada, author, journalist, activist 1968
Irshad Manji: Islam Needs Reformists, Not 'Moderates' http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703992704576305412360432744 The Wall Street Journal (7 May 2011)
„It is moreover to weaken in those who profess this Religion a pious confidence in its innate excellence and the patronage of its Author; and to foster in those who still reject it, a suspicion that its friends are too conscious of its fallacies to trust it to its own merits.“
— James Madison 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817) 1751 - 1836
1780s, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (1785), § 6
„The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.“
— Muhammad Ali African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942 - 2016
Context: Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.
As quoted in Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (1999) by Mike Marqusee<!-- p. 213 -->; also quoted in the International Socialist Review Issue 33 (January–February 2004) http://www.isreview.org/issues/33/muhammadali.shtml
