Civilization Quote by Mary Douglas

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use…

— Larry Flynt

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful,…

— Mary Douglas

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

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

— H. Richard Niebuhr

Religion poisons everything good in this world.

— Ryan Reynolds

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

— Bill Maher

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

— Lucretius

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

— James A. Haught

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

— Mary McCarthy