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The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others. -- Dalai Lama
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness. -- Dalai Lama
Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. -- George Will
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. -- Luke Ford
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. -- George W. Bush
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. -- Azar Nafisi
My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity. -- Wayne Dyer
Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace. -- Leon Bourgeois
Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones. -- Mason Cooley
Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose. -- Gunter Brus
Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose. -- Paul G
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves. -- John Tillotson
The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable. -- Geneen Roth
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things. -- John Dewey
It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs. -- Dane Cook
Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion. -- Karen Armstrong

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