Age Quote by Irvin D. Yalom

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

— Herbert Spencer

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 something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can start to…

— Michelle Monaghan

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

— Dorothee Solle

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 isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion…

— David Dark

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion implies revelation.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

— Glen Cook

... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching…

— Anna Julia Cooper

“Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of…

— William James