Ethics Quote by Mark Lilla

“When you are singled out for torture because of your faith, can religion still be a beacon?”

— Jodi Picoult

“But, of old, there was One whose suffering changed an instrument of torture, degradation and shame, into a symbol of glory, honor, and immortal…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a world that…

— Hermann Broch

“Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousand years from now, when Catholicism will be naught…

— Émile Zola

“Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of ‘religion’, whether they do…

— John Locke

“Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a future life in order to comfort cowards and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“And what more can God do,' he asks, 'then to take on flesh and suffer every humiliation and every fear and every pain that…

— Denise Giardina

“The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is known,—about another…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Nothing is more irreligious than to persecute the seekers of truth in order to keep up absurdities and superstitions of bygone ages. Nothing is…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“...it is infinitely better that the profane and loose be unmasked than to be muffled up under the veil and hood of traditional hypocrisy,…

— Roger Williams

“The ends that religious people are willing to go to justify pain, suffering, death and murder as the will of god and all for…

— Al Stefanelli