Secularism Quotes

“The business of the government is not to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the sanctity of the Sabbath. All these things are important, but they are not politics.”

“The time is past when we can passively permit religious traditions to be beyond criticism.”

“The secularists are the most loyal supporters of the state of Israel.”

“Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.”

“The State of Israel will not be a theological state.”

“I have always been a secularist. I believe in the separation of religion and state.”

“I'm a non-believer, and I think that what I'm saying in my films is that we should be more concerned about what we're doing to each other.”

“I'm a secular humanist. I'm a non-believer.”

“The West has to decide whether it wants to listen to God or to a permissive, secular society.”

“What is now the general temporal consciousness is the same as what was formerly the particular religious consciousness.”

“I'm a Muslim, but I'm a secularist. I believe in the separation of religion from the state.”

“Humor is the closest thing to religious transcendence, to a leap of faith, that can be experienced in a totally secular world.”

“Secularization is the process by which sectors of society and culture are removed from the domination of religious institutions and symbols.”

“Spirituality without religion is possible and, I believe, desirable.”

“Laicism is not indifference, but respect for all beliefs and for those who have none.”

“I am not an atheist, but I do not want religion to interfere in the affairs of the state.”

“We are building a modern state, a state for all Tunisians, without distinction of religion or origin.”

“The veil is like a dusty rag.”

“This law of religious freedom is not a law of hatred, of reprisals against a religion; it is a law of freedom, of respect for all beliefs, of tolerance.”

“A free Church in a free State.”