Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [361-380] of 495 Religion quotesReligion QuotesReligion Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 -- to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.~ P. J. O'Rourke At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is “not done”… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.~ George Orwell If it would be wrong for the government to adopt an official religion, then, for the same reasons, it would be wrong for the government to adopt official education policies. The moral case for freedom of religion stands or falls with that for freedom of education. A society that champions freedom of religion but at the same time countenances state regulation of education has a great deal of explaining to do.~ James R. Otteson I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.~ Thomas Paine Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.~ Thomas Paine Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.~ Thomas Paine Time makes more converts than reason.~ Thomas Paine Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.~ Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.~ Thomas Paine Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system.~ Thomas Paine Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.~ Blaise Pascal For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.~ St. Paul Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.~ St. Paul Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.~ St. Paul To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.~ William Penn Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.~ William Penn While [false teachers] promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.~ St. Peter Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited.~ Pope Pius X One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.~ Pope Pius XII I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.~ Pledge of Allegiance Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print