Benevolence Quote by Henry M. Field

“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion…

— Sam Harris

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion…

— Daniel Dennett

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

— Tom T. Hall

Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite…

— Philip Pullman

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things,…

— Steven Weinberg

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful,…

— Mary Douglas

“There are, indeed, several ways in which religion is not just amoral, but positively immoral. And these faults and crimes are not be found…

— Christopher Hitchens

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

— Irving Kristol

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the…

— Richard Dawkins