Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

Robin Williams

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.

James Russell Lowell

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

Laurence Sterne

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

Luc de Clapiers

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.

Lord Byron

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

William James

Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

William Cowper

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Robert Southey

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Sandra Day O'Connor

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

Voltaire

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Voltaire

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Voltaire

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

William H. Seward

There is no social life outside of Christendom.

Yann Martel

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

Orson Pratt

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Kevin Nealon

I tried to read the Bible, I did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings.

Julius Charles Hare

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

Charles Spurgeon

We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

Charles Simeon

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns