Absolutely Quote by John Hurt

Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious…

— Bill Maher

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very…

— Pema Chodron

We do not need to prove religion to [people], but to show them that they are religious.

— George Tyrrell

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

— Sigmund Freud

To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

I personally am not religious. I think, put into the wrong hands, it's incredibly dangerous. It's the reason for most of the wars that…

— Jared Harris

It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if…

— Allen W. Wood

The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies…

— Amanda Marcotte

Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.

— Tim Crane

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

— Karen Maitland

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

— Blaise Pascal