Crime fiction Quote by P.D. James

“Some morals tended to keep people slaves in factories, in churches and true to the State. Other morals simply made good sense. It was…

— Charles Bukowski

“They tell you the story of Job so often to remind you when you lose it all, stay calm. I've always refused it. I…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“It was so easy to sell anything to the common people, if one could add an element of magic and some religion into it”

— Anand Neelakantan

“Organized religion was not important to him, he said. It was more important how people behaved in their daily lives than what they did…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.”

— J.Adam Snyder

“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.”

— Tim Kreider

“Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.”

— Alexander Pope

“Religion can mean solace and serenity, a kind of security, a private small garden of kindness in a desert of cruelty that seems to…

— Wallace Shawn

“In the Macomb household, cocktail hour was religion.”

— Justin Cronin

“Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality…

— Steven Pinker