25 Secularism Quotes for You to Enjoy

Let no one challenge India's secularism. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Challenge Secularism India No-One

The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. Ellen Willis

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Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality. Steven Pinker

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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam. Abu Bakar Bashir

Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights. Ahmed Zewail

Work Rights Protection Will Values Minority Guided Secularism More Majority Islamic Governance Than Any Egypt Theocracy

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. Donald Wuerl

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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. Francois Hollande

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

Single Secularism Religious Concede Public Realm Should Inch

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. Gad Saad

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I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism. James E. Faust

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

Government Will Unity Secularism India Divisive Motto Afford Polity

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

Science Made Christianity Secularism Threat Seems True Feel Organized Growth

As a supporter of secularism, I am willing to accept same-sex weddings in a state-sanctioned register office, on grounds of equity. As a believer in Islam, however, I insist that no mosque be forced to hold one against its wishes. Mehdi Hasan

If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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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. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Experience Secularism Muslim Some Students Act Aggression

Needless to say, oftentimes a 'religion' is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of modern secularism breeding the worst kind. Steven Crowder

Religion People Needless Say Extremism Worst Worst Kind Secularism Kind Morality Subjective Modern Oftentimes Themselves Breed Breeding Needed

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. Will Self

Death Despite Our Secularism Only Remains Feel Like Most Always Real Disease Dying Little Ill Even Phenomenon

Russian President Vladimir Putin's traditionalist-nationalist rhetoric, which blames secularism, diversity and internationalism for the weakening of Western democracies, gives voice to the grievances that American hate groups have felt for so long. Asha Rangappa

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

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Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square. Keith O'Brien

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