Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
What people need and what they want may be very different… Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
