Able Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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

— 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

Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite, I think, more often the case.

— Steven Weinberg

What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

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

— Sam Harris

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

— Walter Raleigh

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.

— David Eller

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

— James A. Haught

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

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful,…

— Mary Douglas

Religion poisons everything good in this world.

— Ryan Reynolds

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