People Quote by Dave Barry

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

— Jennifer Weiner

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

— Vera Farmiga

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

— Desmond Tutu

“Religion is like a knife. If you use it the wrong way you can cut yourself.”

— Eric Weiner

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and…

— Karen Armstrong

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but…

— PZ Myers

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of…

— Lord Chesterfield

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious…

— Sam Harris

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of…

— Anonymous

“The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.

— Jack Pritchard