American founding fathers Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care…

— Benjamin Franklin

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not…

— Benjamin Franklin

Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and…

— Charles Kimball

Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.

— James A. Haught

Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it…

— Richard Dawkins

“I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not…

— Bertrand Russell

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

— Will Rogers

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

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

— Sam Harris