Atheism Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being…

— Daniel Dennett

For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they…

— Michael Medved

“All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of…

— Pierre Charron

People are always pleased to indulge their religiosity when it allows them to stand in judgment of someone else, licenses them to feel superior…

— Leonard Pitts

“I maintain that Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism all hold up love as an ideal, seek to benefit…

— Dalai Lama XIV

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Al-Ghazali

“religions have much, much more in common than they like to admit. The beliefs are almost always the same; it’s just that the histories…

— David Levithan

“Religions of hope and love are a luxury of security and order; the need for striking fear into a subject or rebellious people made…

— Will Durant

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“A lot of religions are 'Social Clubs' with strange rules, expensive entertainment, cheap wine and stale crackers.”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich