
„Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!“
— Virginia Woolf, livre Mrs Dalloway
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
As quoted in Kemalizm, Laiklik ve Demokrasi [Kemalism, Laicism and Democracy] (1994) by Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
Contexte: Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is a link between Allah and the individual believer. The brokerage of the pious cannot be permitted. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam. If our religion did not conform to reason and logic, it would not be the perfect religion, the final religion.
— Virginia Woolf, livre Mrs Dalloway
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, and politician 1749 - 1832
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).
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)
— John Gibson (media host) American radio talk show host 1946
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— Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979
Source: Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
— Elizabeth Gilbert, livre Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
— Arthur Stanley Eddington British astrophysicist 1882 - 1944
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
Contexte: We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.<!--VII, p.68
— Denis Diderot French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713 - 1784
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)
— Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
Source: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
— Thomas Paine, livre The Age of Reason
Source: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795), Chapter III: Conclusion.
— Roger Ebert American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942 - 2013
Source: Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Ch. 55 : Go Gently
Contexte: 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.”
— Christopher Paolini, livre Brisingr
Source: Brisingr
— David Bowie British musician, actor, record producer and arranger 1947 - 2016
— Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921)
1920s
— 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)
— James Madison 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817) 1751 - 1836
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1780s, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (1785)
— Muhammad Ali African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942 - 2016
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
Contexte: 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.
— Al-Maʿarri Medieval Arab philosopher 973 - 1057
As quoted in The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (1984) by Amin Maalouf, p. 37
Variant translations:
The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern (1906) by John Mackinnon Robertson, Vol. I, Ch. VIII: Freethought under Islam, p. 269
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
This form of the statement has been most commonly misatributted — to Avicenna, in A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science (1950) by Joseph McCabe, p. 43, and later to Averroes, in The Atheist World (1991) by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, p. 46.
Original: اِثْنَانِ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ ذُو عَقْلٍ بِلَا دِينٍ وَآخَرُ دَيِّنٌ لَا عَقْلَ لَهُ
— John Muir (indologist) Scottish Sanskrit scholar and Indologist 1810 - 1882
Subaji Bapu, MataparIkshAsikshA, from his reply to John Muirs Matapariksha, Cited by R.F. Young and quoted from Goel, S. R. (2016). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Chapter 10. ISBN 9788185990354 https://web.archive.org/web/20120501043412/http://voiceofdharma.org/books/hhce/
About John Muirs Matapariksha
— Abby Stein Trans activist, speaker, and educator 1991
On Popsugar, June 5, 2017 https://www.popsugar.com/news/Meet-Transgender-Activist-Abby-Stein-43598113
2017
— Aron Ra Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast 1962
Youtube, Other, Republican Theocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjNg7nQvB0 (November 4, 2012)