Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.Salman Rushdie
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.Salman Rushdie
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.Salman Rushdie
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.Salman Rushdie
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.Bertrand Russell
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.Bertrand Russell
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.Bertrand Russell