We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
-David Mitchell
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet"
Quotations
Religion
I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
-Hannah Harrington
"Saving June"
What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
-Hitopadesa "Hitopadesa"
Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.
-Christopher Paolini
"Brisingr"
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
-Søren Kierkegaard
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
-Avicenna
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
-José Saramago
"Death with Interruptions"
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.
-Thomas Paine
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
