Money Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“There was a time, when we were illiterate, insane and inhuman, and we needed religion to control the masses for the good or evil,…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“the more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.”

— Darrel Ray

“Religion in modern society is only artificially kept together and upheld by the Church and by those Governments to whose social or private interest…

— Ármin Vámbéry

“Poverty is no religion in the world. They need support for growth only.”

— Sujit Kumar Mishra

“Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by their own…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.”

— Peter L. Berger

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with…

— Jeremy Bentham

“Religion only serves to add more narrow-minded, ignorant, bigoted, discriminatory and hateful people to the world.”

— Al Stefanelli

“Yet, in fact, religion has been the third great unifier of humankind, alongside money and empires.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

— Seneca

“More people than ever before look to government as their best chance of securing well-being rather than as their inevitable enemy. Politics as a…

— John Morris Roberts