Famous Quotes

"Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds."

John Henrik Clarke on Religion

More quotes about Religion

• "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."

  Dalai Lama on Religion

• "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Religion

• "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

  C. S. Lewis on Religion

• "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

  C. S. Lewis on Religion

• "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

  Albert Camus on Religion

More quotes by John Henrik Clarke

• "I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began."

• "My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people."

• "I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began."

• "My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people."

• "Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it."