Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. – Bonnie Raitt
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. – Niccolo Machiavelli
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. – H. L. Mencken
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. – Abdul Kalam
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. – Bertrand Russell
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. – William Ralph Inge
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. – Karl Marx
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. – Charles Spurgeon
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. – Sigmund Freud
Religion is all bunk. – Thomas A. Edison
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all. – Richard Dawkins
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. – Thomas Paine
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. – George Orwell
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. – Thomas Paine
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. – Napoleon Bonaparte
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. – Hillary Clinton
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. – Thomas Paine
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift
