Religion quotes

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.