Ill Quote by Richard Dawkins

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, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

— Frank Herbert

...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 has been the most effective weapon, which if used properly can help facilitate the uniting of the world.

— Koena Mitra

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

— Mario Bunge

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the…

— Octavia Butler

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and…

— Karen Armstrong

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things,…

— Steven Weinberg

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

— Rigoberta Menchu

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

I've got no problem with religion if you're going to use it for the good, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. But that's rarely…

— Janeane Garofalo