Religion Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. Sigmund Freud, The Future of an…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Our past is not sacred for being past, and there is much that is behind us that we are struggling to keep behind us,…

— Sam Harris

“There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by flattery or…

— Christopher Hitchens

“They settled the question, by deciding that misfortunes most commonly happen to us from our own misconduct or imprudence; but sometimes from causes independent…

— Alessandro Manzoni

“Invariably the failure of organized religions, by which they cut themselves off from mystery and therefore from sanctity, lies in the attempt to impose…

— Wendell Berry

“The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which,…

— William Paley

How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?

— H. P. Blavatsky

The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.

— Al-Ghazali

“have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could the course…

— John Dewey

“In the year 399 B.C.[E.] he was accused of "introducing new gods and corrupting the youth," as well as not believing in the accepted…

— Jostein Gaarder

The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity] cannot be treated with too much…

— John Adams

The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley