Atheism Quote by John Stuart Mill

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

— William Butler Yeats

It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can…

— Etienne de La Boetie

“For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and…

— John F. Kennedy

“To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before the Jews…

— John E. Remsburg

“Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

— Will Durant

A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for…

— Albert Einstein

“We have, it seems, a few people who think Jarret may be just what the country needs—apart from his religious nonsense. The thing is,…

— Octavia E. Butler

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but…

— Walter Scott

Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality.…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever…

— Isaac Bonewits