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Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature

Sigmund Freud

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Seneca

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam

George Bernard Shaw

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Richard Dawkins

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Larry Flynt

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Dave Barry

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell

I'm religiously opposed to religion

Victor Hugo

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth

Henry Louis Mencken

We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Henry Louis Mencken

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

Swami Vivekananda

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge

William James

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

Oscar Wilde

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

Mark Twain

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Georgia Harkness

God has no religion

Mahatma Gandhi

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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