#religion

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. ↗

— Karl Marx

#first #happiness #people #religion #requisite

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

#creature #heart #heartless #opium #oppressed

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#merely #opium #religion

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#any #difference #go #how #lot

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#communism #largely #like #made #other

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#eternal #exclusive #indispensable #judaism #religion

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#legislation #one thing #religion #revealed #thing

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#necessary #physical #power #religion #state

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. ↗

— James A. Michener

#better #customs #fear #food #home

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#bondage #christian #civilization #debt #deprived