Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture religion or tradition propagates.

Let us have but one end in view the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language nationality or religion.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty for in it are born our art our science our religion.

Nevertheless there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

I am an atheist and if an atheist and a pope think the same things there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

In the 21st century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life regardless of race or religion.

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human if one only interprets this correctly.

Set religion free and a new humanity will begin.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

If I don't talk about my religion if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on they're like 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it it becomes 'Oh he's proselytizing.'

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.