Famous quotes containing the words religion and, religion, drugs and/or faith:
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
—Willa Cather (18761947)
“India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)
“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more activenot more happynor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)