Richard Dawkins Quotes

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

Above all, India is the land of religion.

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

In Islam's golden age, so much progress was made that it became the basis of the European Renaissance. We Muslims have to change ourselves, that's the main difference. We can't keep blaming America or Israel for our misery.

The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black, the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

Protestantism, Judaism and Confucianism have been the religions more conducive to progress while Islam, Catholicism, and Orthodox Christianity have been the least conducive.

In a religious world, secular human rights of recent heritage and ambiguous origin increasingly compete with long-standing cultural claims legitimated by traditions and gods.

It really wasn't until I was 15 or 16 years old that I realized that the church was always there; it was always a part of what we were doing, even if it wasn't at the center of everything we did.

In India, knowledge has always been considered more valuable than power, fame or riches. In our tradition, educational institutions are respected as temples of learning.

Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.

There's a lot of misunderstanding out there, particularly in the difference between religion and culture. For example, I hear people criticise Islam for arranged marriages, but that's nothing to do with Islam. It is the culture in some places, but it's actually against Islam.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

I'm not talking about the people. I have nothing against the people. I have nothing against the Indonesian people or the Arab people or the Muslim people. I'm talking about the ideology.

Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.

I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating.

The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world ofsuperstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.