The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
Quotations
Religion
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson
Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Science is the name for transformation brought in the psychology of substances
and religion is the name for the knowledge which transforms the psychology of
human beings. Science can provide material comforts to a human being, but
for mental well-being, one has to change his psychology. Hence, striking a fine
balance between the two is the only way to lead a human being and the world
onto the path of progress.
-Deep Trivedi
Religions grow when religious leaders die.
-J. Krishnamurti
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
-Albert Einstein
I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT!'
-Margaret Cho
Perceiving her son endowed with the characteristics of Vishnu, Devaki prayed: You are the Illuminator of all psycho-physical organisms, the indefinable Reality, which the Vedas declare as the unmanifest cause… When the universe is dissolved by force of Time, the gross elements are ultimately merged in ahankara (their cause)…
-Scriptures "Bhagavata Purana"
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
-Joseph Campbell
