Compassion Quote by Agnivesh

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

— Bill Maher

Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

— Reggie Watts

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited…

— Neale Donald Walsch

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all…

— Beatrix Potter

Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite…

— Philip Pullman

“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not…

— Alain de Botton

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for…

— Alain de Botton

religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human…

— Georgia Harkness

“Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new…

— Emil Cioran

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence…

— Mahatma Gandhi