Quotations on Religion
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
-Charlotte P. Gilbert
Religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein
Religious beliefs are a drug fed to the people, a hoax through which they are led to tolerate their harsh lot in this life in hope of gaining a "fictional afterlife."
-Karl Marx
Religion is the opiate of the people.
-Karl Marx
Religion is a bridge to one's spirituality and too many people get stuck on the bridge.
-Wynona Judd
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Religion: Need is not quite belief.
-Anne Sexton
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
-Aurobindo Ghose
The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
-Ezra Pound
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
-Barry Goldwater
I was born a heretic. I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
-Susan B. Anthony
Agent Dogget: "You can find a conspiracy at a church picnic!"
Agent Mulder: "What church?"
-The X-Files
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
-Sir Richard Francis Burton
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
-Woodrow Wilson
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
-Nicole Christian
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
-Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994)
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
-Dave Barry
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-Voltaire
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
-Steven Weinberg
Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
-Ludwig Feuerbach
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
-Arthur C. Clarke
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.
-Anna Sewell
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
-Cathy Ladman
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
-Bill Gates
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.
-Albert Einstein
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
-Oscar Wilde
Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.
-John Danforth
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
-Mark Twain
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
-Doris Egan
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life -- except religion.
-Christopher Hitchens
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
-Bertrand Russell
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
-John Irving

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