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Secular Quotes

On modern life apart from religion.

This collection gathers quotes on secular society and its relationship to religion, including the view that modernity is assumed to overcome religion at the core of secular thinking, close to Belief quotes.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Quotes by Ulrich Beck

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Quotes by Theodore White

Nepal will be a secular state - there is no other way.

Quotes by Sushil Koirala

Balance Quotes

We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria.

Quotes by Sergei Lavrov

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Quotes by Samuel Alito

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Quotes by Robert Hughes

Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a - he was a Baathist. He was a secular - even though he professed to be a good and...

Quotes by Rick Santorum

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

Quotes by Richard Morris

Belief Quotes

In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.

Quotes by Richard Corliss

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

Quotes by Randy Alcorn

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

Quotes by Michel Onfray

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Quotes by M. H. Abrams

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

Quotes by Leon Wieseltier

Emotion Quotes

Anti-Christian ideology has permeated much of the secular news media, and so often Biblical Christians are mocked, misrepresented or attacked for what they believe by anti-Christian agenda driven reporters.

Quotes by Ken Ham

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

Quotes by Kathryn Bigelow

The White House has a secular, humanistic agenda.

Quotes by John Fleming

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

Quotes by Gracia Martore

In Britain, we are not a secular state as France is, or some other countries.

Quotes by Gordon Brown

Neutrality Quotes

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

Quotes by Dennis Prager

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Secular quotes collection about?
This page collects quotes about secularism and its relationship to religion, covering society, media, politics, and specific countries described as secular or Westernized.
Why do people search for quotes about secularism?
Secularism is a recurring topic in discussions of politics, culture, and religion, so people look for quotes on it when writing essays, debates, or reflections on how modern life relates to faith.
What core assumption do these quotes attribute to secular society?
One quote states the basic assumption of secular society is that modernity overcomes religion, framing secularism as tied closely to ideas of progress and modern life.
Do these quotes take a side on debates about secular media and religion?
No. One quote raises the view that anti-Christian ideology has spread widely across secular news outlets, but this page presents it as one perspective among several rather than an established fact, and stays neutral on the underlying debate, related to Belief quotes.
Are specific countries described as secular in this collection?
Yes, one quote describes Jordan as a very secular, Westernized country in some respects, offering a real-world example rather than a general claim about all nations.

Others describe specific countries as secular and Westernized, or call American politics 'the binding secular religion.' See also Balance and Neutrality quotes.