Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
William James – Religion
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
Arthur Schopenhauer – Religion
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx – Religion
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion and that is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran – Religion
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
Doug McLeod – Religion
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
Epicurus – If the gods listened to the prayers
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson – Religion, Liberty
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
Jonathon Miller – Religion
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson – Religion, God
It is doubtless true that religion has been the world’s psychiatrist throughout the centuries.
Karl Menninger – Religion
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 – Religion
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal – Religion
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
T. S. Eliot – Religion
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.
Bhagavad Gita – Religion
As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily and I am amazed by the frequency with which religion causes people to kill each other. It is a nearly universal pattern, undercutting the common assumption that religion makes people kind and tolerant.
