Adverse Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it &…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“The origin of superstition above given affords us a clear reason for the fact, that it comes to all men naturally, though some refer…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Superstitions are primal in nature and because they feed on instinct, having nothing but disdain for reason, they are often swift and unexpected messengers…

— Mansoor Nazeer

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

— Marlene Dietrich

It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

— Umberto Eco

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

— Thomas Jefferson

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of…

— Richard Whately

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau