Top 105 Secularism Quotes & Sayings

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

I think many thinkers and activists, even in the Islamist parties like the Muslim Brotherhood, and the people who left the Muslim Brotherhood to follow Abou el-Fatouh, these people do have an understanding that the relationship between religion and the state must be re-thought and re-assessed. They're not going to use the concept of secularism in any straightforward way, because the concept of secularism is still far too loaded in that part of the world.

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions.

Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.

One of the challenges of secularism is that it's not something outside us. In too many instances, secularism has so permeated the church that sometimes it's the frame of reference even for very good people, people who have a strong allegiance to the church.

Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.

Secularism is intact because of Hindus.

I have said time and again that the republican order, and secularism, when executed perfectly, are blessings from God.

Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.

We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.

Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.

The Golden Age of Secularism has passed.

Secularism and pluralism are two of the defining ethos of Western societies. The former decouples religion from governmental institutions whilst the latter seeks to protect the rights of all citizens to freely practice their creed.

The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularism/Islamism.

We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

Secularism is a term interpreted in many different ways by different people. For me, it has always been something very simple - putting India First

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

Secularism must be applied everywhere, because that is how everyone will be able to live in peace with each other.

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.

When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values in all of life, the truth will be sacrificed on the altar of mainstream secularism.

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

India cannot pretend anymore that none of its citizens fancy membership to the Global Jehad club. We need to examine where our secularism has failed.

When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.

Secularism produces a bored soul

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.

'Secularism' is the most misused word in the country. Its misuse should come to an end.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

If Christians continue to rely on emotion and ignore evidence, they will continue to lose their children to secularism. As Ravi Zacharias points out, a tepid Christianity cannot withstand a rabid secularism. And make no mistake-secularism is rabid. The world isn't neutral out there. Today's culture is becoming increasingly anti-Christian.

Let no one challenge India's secularism.

The fact remains that secularism is inherent in the Indian system, in the Indian ethos and culture. India cannot but be secular.

What I do not like is militant secularism, whereby anything is acceptable as long as it's not Christian.

Secularism has no central goal, it's just promoting endless relativism. That's why there is a huge moral drift in the country. Everybody is infallible except the Pope, if you like.