Atheism Quote by Bertrand Russell

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

— Sigmund Freud

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

— Desmond Tutu

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

— Ellen Glasgow

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

— Al Gore

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

— Bette Davis

Cruelty is the only sin.

— Ellen Glasgow

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

— John Henry Newman

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

— Ludovico Ariosto

It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves…

— Ernest Renan