Quotations
Religion
Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear.
- Bertrand Russell
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
- Karl Marx
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive Unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness — an act of trust in the unknown.
- Alan Watts
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
- Charles H. Spurgeon
I am for religion, against religions.
- Victor Hugo
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
- Joseph Campbell
We are so interested in religion that first we put the person who has come to
awaken us to sleep. Then making him God, we establish such a religion around
him that we don't face any obstacle in perpetrating the violence, jealousy, partiality,
lies, cheating, fraud or pretence as we desire; and simultaneously adhering to
few hypocrisies, also remain proud of being religious.
- Deep Trivedi
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
- Voltaire
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