When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. – Anais Nin
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. – Karl Marx
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. – Friedrich Nietzsche
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. – H. P. Lovecraft
Religion is just mind control. – George Carlin
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. – Aldous Huxley
Religion is the opium of the masses. – Karl Marx
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. – Robert Green Ingersoll
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. – Thomas Paine
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
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. – John Henrik Clarke
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. – Martin Luther
Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. – Richard Dawkins
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. – Voltaire
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. – Barack Obama
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. – Carl Sagan
