A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then… — John Selden Copy Share Image
There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
…We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It would be a crime for me to say that Islam is a backward desert superstition that has no place in modern,… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image