Quotations
Religion
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
- Karl Marx
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
- Richard Dawkins
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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Seneca the Younger
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
- Alan Wilson Watts
They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.
- Deb Caletti
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
- David Mitchell
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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