(1561 quotes found)
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
Steven Weinberg
“Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.”
Timothy Jones
“Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"”
Annie Dillard
“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
Albert Einstein
“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Jonathan Swift
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - This is a somewhat new kind of religion”