Religion quotes

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Religion is just mind control.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.