Belief Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

— Rodney Stark

By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality…

— Bertrand Russell

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

— Samuel Richardson

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

— John Tillotson

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not…

— Thomas Jefferson

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will…

— Martin Luther

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

— Anonymous

“If men were rational, they would take a more correct view of their own interest than they do at present; and if all men…

— Bertrand Russell