“Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.”
Others on Religion
Karl Marx
5 quotes“He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he...”
Umberto Eco
2 quotes“People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”
G.K. Chesterton
2 quotes“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.”
Mahatma Gandhi
2 quotes“In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals.”
Napoleon
2 quotes“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
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...”
Elie Wiesel
1 quote“Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.”
Robert M. Pirsig
1 quote“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a R...”
Émile Durkheim
1 quote“If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religi...”
Voltaire
1 quote“In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.”
Lauryn Hill
1 quote“Real religion is no religion at all.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1 quote“That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.”