Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion. (Quote by - Dewey Henize)

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organisation. For the latter makes use of violence, the former- of the corruption of the will. (Quote by - Alexander Herzen)

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. Even if you are an atheist, you are in danger, and if you decide to convert to Islam, this will not save you, either, because traditional Islam is inimical to the conditions and objectives set by the terrorists. (Quote by - Vladimir Putin)

G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be, Just for a screen. (Quote by - Robert Burns)

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. (Quote by - Austin Farrer)

Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man. (Quote by - Swami Vivekananda)

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog. (Quote by - Jonathan Miller)

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. (Quote by - William James)

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead )

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do. (Quote by - George MacDonald)

Religion is the opium of the people. (Quote by - Karl Marx)

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do. (Quote by - Will Durant)

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)

Any system of religion that has any thing in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another. (Quote by - Epicurus)

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth. (Quote by - M.K. Gandhi)

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. (Quote by - Lady Blessington)