Human nature Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

— Lucretius

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

— Ben Jonson

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

— Hugh B. Brown

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

— Cyprian

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.

— Aristotle

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.

— William Shakespeare

Few men are wantonly wicked.

— Mahatma Gandhi

And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think…

— Tom Robbins

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

— Gregory Maguire

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

— Joseph Hall

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in…

— Irving Kristol