{"quotes":[{"text":"Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.","author":"Nancy Pearcey","tags":["liberty","morality","morality-without-religion","secularism","tyranny"],"id":7959,"author_id":"Nancy+Pearcey"},{"text":"The twentieth century will have taught us that no doctrine in itself is necessarily a liberating force: all of them may be perverted or take a wrong turning; all have blood on their hands - communism, liberalism, nationalism, each of the great religions, and even secularism. Nobody has a monopoly on humane values.","author":"Amin Maalouf","tags":["communism","doctrine","liberalism","nationalism","religion","secularism"],"id":13385,"author_id":"Amin+Maalouf"},{"text":"Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.","author":"Jim Wallis","tags":["religion","secularism"],"id":15861,"author_id":"Jim+Wallis"},{"text":"We are both preachers. He preached the teaching of Jesus Christ, and I preached my philosophy.He asked me: “Do you pray?”“No.”“Do you beseech God to forgive your trespasses?”“No.”“Do you not thank God for his bounty?”“No.”“Do you not depend on God's support?”“No.”And with this his puzzlement increased until he was assured that my fate lies in hell indeed.","author":"Khalil al-Sakakini","tags":["agnosticism","arabs","athiesm","christianity","humanism","nonreligious","nontheists","secularism"],"id":20228,"author_id":"Khalil+al-Sakakini"},{"text":"Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct but that they are also good. Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, sentimental, foolish, a dope; disagree with someone one the left and he is more likely to think you selfish, cold-hearted, a sellout, evil-in league with the devil, he might say, if he didn't think religious terminology too coarse for our secular age. To this day one will hear of people who fell for Communism in a big way let off the hook because they were sincere; if one's heart is in the right place, nothing else matters, even if one's naive opinions made it easier for tyrants to murder millions.","author":"Joseph Epstein","tags":["conservatism","conservatives","government","leftism","liberalism","liberals","opinions","politics","progressives","rightism","secularism"],"id":20369,"author_id":"Joseph+Epstein"},{"text":"If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!","author":"Mahatma Gandhi","tags":["christian","dictatorship","gandhi","politics","privacy","religion","secularism","social-welfare","state"],"id":25487,"author_id":"Mahatma+Gandhi"},{"text":"How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["atheism","fundamentalism","religion","secularism","separation-of-church-and-state","united-states","united-states-constitution"],"id":32626,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.","author":"Albert Einstein","tags":["atheism","honesty","integrity","secularism"],"id":36478,"author_id":"Albert+Einstein"},{"text":"You don't choose to choose what you choose in life!","author":"Sam Harris","tags":["determinism","existentialism","free-will","philosophy","secularism"],"id":53892,"author_id":"Sam+Harris"},{"text":"New Atheism simplicity is the byproduct of collective groupthink, and the internalization of self-congratulatory jingoistic clichés and generalizations. They know because they know, and there's no reasoning with someone who knows.'- The New Atheist Threat: The Dangerous Rise of Secular Extremists.","author":"CJ Werleman","tags":["atheism","belief","fundamentalism","god","new-atheism","philosophy","religion","secularism"],"id":86589,"author_id":"CJ+Werleman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}