Religions are the cradles of despotism.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

— Huey Long

Cradles are the most powerful pinning combination known to man

— Wade Schalles

“Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle.”

— Diana Palmer

Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

— Virginia Woolf

“They stood at the bottom of the steps under a light shaped like a caged star, soothing each other with their thoughts as they…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive…

— Alice Morse Earle

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is…

— Marquis de Sade

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and…

— Marquis de Sade

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

— Whoopi Goldberg

In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

— Richard Dawkins

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

— Stendhal

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

— Albert Camus