"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and……" — Baron d'Holbach
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."
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Baron d'Holbach
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31 Quotes by Baron d'Holbach
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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and…
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our…
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What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to…
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Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little,…
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The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature,…
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How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance…
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Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to…
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Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other…
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to…
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
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I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived,…
— Adolf Hitler
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
— Thomas Jefferson
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The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their…
— James Madison
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
— George Washington
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There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only…
— Albert Einstein
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The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.
— Unknown Author
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They…
— Leo Tolstoy
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