“If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.”
Others on Religion
Karl Marx
5 quotes“Religion is the opium of the people.”
Thomas Paine
2 quotes“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions est...”
Umberto Eco
2 quotes“People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”
Napoleon
2 quotes“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
Mahatma Gandhi
2 quotes“In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.”
G.K. Chesterton
2 quotes“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
1 quote“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
Saint Augustine
1 quote“Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish.”
Spinoza
1 quote“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.”
Billy Graham
1 quote“Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world.”
Carl Sagan
1 quote“You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human...”
Sam Harris
1 quote“The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are margina...”