Authoritarianism Quote by Abhijit Naskar

“he had hated authoritarian religion”

— Ken Follett

“This is how religions shore up dictators; by encircling them with words of power, words which the people are reluctant to see discredited, disenfranchised,…

— Salman Rushdie

“Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism…

— Sam Harris

“Religion is the nurture of backbiting tales vomited by authoritarians, eaten by subalterns.”

— Jahanshah Safari

“A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.”

— Thomas Wolfe

“A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society.”

— Wilhelm Reich

“...religious moderates are themselves the bearers of a terrible dogma: they imagine that the path to peace will be paved once each of us…

— Sam Harris

“Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.5…

— Charles J. Chaput

“The world needs the kind of religion that sets humanity free, not the kind that binds it with textual fanaticism. The world needs the…

— Abhijit Naskar

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

— Peter Ustinov

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they…

— Aristotle