Historical Quote by Mario Bunge

Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.

— Orlando Jones

Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors - economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial - which shape and drive human action and…

— Mehdi Hasan

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from…

— Robert Wright

Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been…

— Emma Goldman

Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

— Glen Cook

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

Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.

— Jack Pritchard

...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

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed…

— John Henrik Clarke

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins