War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Religion is just mind control.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.