Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear.
-Bertrand Russell
Quotations
Religion
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahamsa"
All the religions of the world may be good and true. But situated as we are, our own religion is the best for us.
-D. S. Sarma
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
-Albert Einstein
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln
Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
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
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"
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 have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
-Bill Maher
