Attention Quote by Jon Meacham

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 has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

— Ziggy Marley

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the…

— Octavia Butler

...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition…

— Deepak Chopra

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore…

— Greta Christina

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

Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.

— James A. Haught

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