State Religion - States/Countries Without A State Religion

Famous quotes containing the words states, countries, state and/or religion:

“In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.”
—Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac (1619–1655)

“I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“Such is my jealousy and such my hate
though I would state it otherwise.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)