Burden Quote by John Milton

Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

— Thomas Jefferson

Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

— Umberto Eco

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

— Tryon Edwards

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

— Edmund Burke

Theology is Classified Superstition.

— Elbert Hubbard

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of…

— Richard Whately

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters

— Titus Livy

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable

— Joseph Joubert

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions,…

— Voltaire

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

— Tacitus