Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. – Sigmund Freud
If a man has been his mothers undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. – Sigmund Freud
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a fathers protection. – Sigmund Freud
There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said “Let us pray,” and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. – Desmond M. Tutu, “Religious Human Rights and the Bible”