#religion

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#gas #happy #laughing #makes #people

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#mandated #others #promotion #religion #requirement

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #philosophy #religion #change

Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself. ↗

— Larry David

#day #ever #gone #hearing #how

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ↗

— Dave Davies

#became #beings #control #controlling #human

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#capable #only #religion #souls #superstition

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#commit #despot #developed #developed world #leaders

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#bunch #catholic #dealt #gay #go

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#ambition #cloak #employed #exploitation #injustice

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #institutions #into #passage #power