(1620 quotes found)
“The more man clings to religion, the more he believes. The more he believes, the less he knows. The less he knows, the more stupid he is. The more stupid, the easier he can be governed! The easier to govern, the better he may be exploited. The more exploited, the poorer he gets. The poorer he gets, the richer and mightier the domineering classes get, the more riches and power they amass, the heavier their yoke upon the neck of the people.”
Johann Most
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's”
Mark Twain
“Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.”
Anatole France
“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”
Dalai Lama
“Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain”
“In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other”
“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world”
Voltaire
“My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoning”
“The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
Billy Graham
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