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Quote DB :: Religion :: Anti-Religion Search in this category Sponsored Links Quote Author Rating Rate "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church." Thomas Paine "Where knowledge ends, religion begins." Benjamin Disraeli "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." Napoleon Bonaparte "Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man...who has no gills." Ambrose Bierce "What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." Bertrand Russell "Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." Henry Mencken "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." Steven Weinberg "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." Napoleon Bonaparte "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." Author Unknown "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." Blaise Pascal "In Heaven all the interesting people are missing." Friedrich Nietzsche "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." Albert Einstein "The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." George Bernard Shaw "Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains." Robert G. Ingersoll "Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope." Robert G. Ingersoll "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine "Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage." Dennis Potter "Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth." Henry Mencken "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire) "We must repsect 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 are smart." Henry Mencken 1 2 Next >> Browse Anti-Religion quotes by Author: Abraham Lincoln Albert Einstein Ambrose Bierce Author Unknown Benjamin Disraeli Bertrand Russell Bill Gates Blaise Pascal Cardinal Bellarmine Dennis Potter Desmond Morris Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire) Friedrich Nietzsche George Bernard Shaw Henry Mencken James Feibleman Lemuel Washburn Napoleon Bonaparte Robert G. Ingersoll Robert Heinlein Steven Weinberg Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine Victor Hugo

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