History Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Religions based on the principle of service and a focus on the less fortunate help a society deal with want.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to…

— William Robertson Smith

With increasing poverty, welfare dependency and violence in the United States, religion and religious organizations have an important role to play combating societal problems.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite, I think, more often the case.

— Steven Weinberg

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

— Will Durant

“Religious beliefs are culture bound…land overwhelmed by poverty, overcrowding, starvation, disease, class oppression and lack of any hope for a better future were what…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

— Riane Eisler

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea of giving…

— Nelson Mandela

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

— Tony Campolo

Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

— Alfred North Whitehead