“Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition”
Paul Keller
“The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition then Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus”
George Bernard Shaw
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”
Pope John Paul II
“Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.”
Victor Hugo
“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother”
Voltaire
“There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsis”
Robert Green Ingersoll
