Believe it, or not. Here are some proverbs and quotes about religion, beliefs and superstition.
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Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.
Mick JaggerMan is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
Mark TwainMany ideological beliefs, in addition to being evil, are patently ludicrous — ideas that no sane person would ever countenance on his or her own.
Steven PinkerMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise PascalMost men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion.
Lemuel K. WashburnMost people like short prayers and long sausages.
Mountains are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
Anatoli BoukreevMy mind is my own church.
Thomas PaineMy religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai LamaNow, you listen here! He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!
Terry JonesSource: Movie: Life Of Brian
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Mark TwainSource: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
Richard DawkinsSource: The God delusion
People don't think and thus get fooled by priests and Trumpalikes.
MinkukelPeople who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
Dave BarryPray = To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose BiercePriests, friars, nuns, and chickens never have enough.
Public opinion is often wrong. Mob opinion is almost always wrong. Religious opinion is wrong by definition.
Christopher HitchensReligion is an insult to human dignity.
Steven WeinbergReligion is called "faith" precisely because it trusts things unseen.
Frans de WaalReligion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Richard DawkinsReligion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon BonaparteReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Seneca the YoungerReligion is the opium of the masses.
Karl MarxReligion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic.
Amanda BaxterReligion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
Richard DawkinsReligion: Fake old news.
MinkukelReligions are just ideas, and don't have rights.
Steven PinkerReligions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else’s stinks.
Picket FencesReligions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
George SantayanaScience is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
Stephen HawkingScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert EinsteinSo long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
Stephen HawkingSo man created god in his own image, in the image of man he created him.
(unknown author)Solitude is full of God.
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Pope John Paul IISuperstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSuperstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.
VoltaireThe believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.
A.B. GuthrieThe devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
George HerbertThe fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard ShawThe farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Neil deGrasse TysonThe only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil’s masterpiece.
Sam HarrisThe religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe simple believeth every word.
BibleSource: Proverbs 14:15
The thing about religion is that everybody else's always appears stupid.
Dave BarryTheology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.
Sam HarrisTheology is unnecessary.
Stephen HawkingThere are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
Daniel Dennett