Block Quote by Emma Goldman

Religion is a belief in supernatural entities or forces that have an effect on the natural world - A belief in forces that are…

— Greta Christina

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

— Mario Bunge

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of…

— Peter L. Berger

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became…

— Karen Armstrong

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed…

— John Henrik Clarke

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with…

— James Martineau

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and…

— Emile Durkheim

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means…

— Max More