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Without Religion Quotes

Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.
- Steven Barnes

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Dalai Lama

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
- Eric Gill

But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.
- Temple Grandin

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
- Mark Hopkins

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
- William Dean Howells

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We are all born like Catholics... in limbo, without religion.
- Yann Martel

We are all born like Catholics, aren't wein limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
- Yann Martel

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
- Arthur Wellesley

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
- Hannah More

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
- George Washington

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg

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