“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking”
Henry Louis Mencken
“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion”
Bertrand Russell
“On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.”
Voltaire
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
Thomas Paine
“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.”
Arthur C. Clarke
