Top 10 Secular Quotes

"Secular" refers to things that are not religious or spiritual in nature, or to attitudes, activities, or organizations that are not affiliated with any religious belief or institution. A secular society, for example, is one in which religion does not play a dominant role in shaping laws, policies, or cultural norms. Secularism advocates for the separation of religion and government, allowing individuals the freedom to practice any religion or none at all without interference from the state. It's often associated with principles such as religious tolerance, freedom of conscience, and the promotion of reason and evidence-based thinking in public discourse.

Top 10 Secular Quotes 

1. "I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the certainty of its own truth. And since there are 6,000 religions currently on the face of the earth, they can't all be right. And only the secular spirit can guarantee those freedoms and it's the secular spirit that they contest."
— Tom Flynn

2. "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
— James Madison

3. "I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men."
— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

4. "If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that respect."
— Ian Mcewan

5. "If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition."
— Unknown

6. "Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind."
— Thomas Paine

7. "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."
— Thomas Jefferson

8. "The physical can be spiritual. Evolution simply happened—foresightless, by chance, without goal. There is nobody to despise or rebel against—not even ourselves. And this is not some bizarre form of neurophilosophical nihilism but rather a point of intellectual honesty and great spiritual depth."
— Thomas Metzinger

9. "Supernatural thinking is simply the natural consequence of failing to match our intuitions with the true reality of the world."
— Bruce M. Hood

10. "How much vanity must be concealed—not too effectively at that—in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?"
— Christopher Hitchens