I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the… — Culbert Olson Copy Share Image
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood. — Jason Akermanis Copy Share Image
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out… — Steven Blum Copy Share Image
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains… — Howard Thompson 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
“Not believing in some so-called superstitions is the biggest type of superstition!” — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
