Best Secular Society Quotes

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don’t annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that’s driving us, which we may or may not know.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.

We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.

It’s been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion and my take on Andy as an artist now comes down to a simple sentence: he made religious art for a secular society which is why it has so much appeal.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

A man’s ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don’t get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being ‘like everyone else’ for ‘everyone else’ is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and ‘stand out’ in whatever way their talents allow.