Quote by Greg Egan

“The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist.”

— Anton Chekhov

“If vanity were a religion, he’d be a fundamentalist.”

— Rion Amilcar Scott

“ Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.”

— Larry Hannant

“He’s a pretty serious believer.’ ‘Yeah? Funny how it doesn’t get in the way of his commercial life.’ ‘Yeah, well. Organised religion, you know.”

— Richard K. Morgan

“He would behave in the same way, say the same things, give himself completely to anybody who came along, anybody and everybody who liked…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Marx is only half right when he calls religion the opium of the people. It may turn a lot of people into sheep, but…

— Hugh MacLennan

“The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake about it.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

“He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a…

— George Orwell

“He turned from the daughters of minor aristocrats to those of farriers, farmers and foresters. Personally he couldn't tell the difference, yet the world…

— Diane Setterfield

“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any…

— Mike Carey

“Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity. Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the…

— Arundhati Roy

“but every resistance needed its psychopaths to do the jobs ordinary people with morals wouldn’t be comfortable doing. He”

— Darren Wearmouth