John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Quotes

If blood is to be shed, let it be our blood ... For man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hand of his brother, never by killing him.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

We are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah. The most honorable death is to be killed.

Blood has always flowed before great ideas could settle into actual institutions, or before the yearnings of humanity could become realities.

There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.

Gosh, I think faith is a wonderful thing. And I even think religion's a wonderful thing. I know a lot of people want to say, 'Religion's the only reason that man has had any trouble at all,' but you know what? World War I and World War II were not fought because of religious reasons.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

I'm a Mormon, but I share your faith in the atonement of the savior, Jesus Christ. In my faith, we have a guy who gave his life for what he believed in. You don't have to believe it; I'm not asking you to. I'm asking you, "What is it that you believe? Are you willing to give your life?"

You must believe me when I believe, and not when I doubt.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God... So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God - nor deny that there could be one.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.