Secular Quotes

I'm a stone-cold atheist.

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist.

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

I'm not a religious person by any means.

The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

I'm your basic atheist that believes in maybe - I'm a spiritual atheist.

I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.

My mom is very liberal. She has never been religious... spiritual but not religious.

Battles are the principle milestones in secular history.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

The American intelligentsia has been pretty secular for a long time. There have always been figures like Oprah Winfrey, let's put it that way.

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever." That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.

To be quite honest, I'm not religious.

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

It would take a God with equal measures of truth, love, and justice to [give us a metanarrative]. Since I had abandoned that faith in God and considered myself secular, that wasn't a real option for me.

Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

Turkey is a country where Islam and secularism coexist.

Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.