Character Quote by Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

“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

“Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human…

— Blaise Pascal

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

— Robert Charles Wilson

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

— William Hazlitt

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion,…

— Billy Sunday

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out…

— Thomas a Kempis

Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.

— George Carlin

“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

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

— Joseph Cook