Accidents Quote by Richard Dawkins

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

— Sigmund Freud

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 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 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] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and…

— Rose Macaulay

There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We have a…

— Jonathan Trigell

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

— Jack Pritchard

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 the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in…

— Sigmund Freud

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

— Gene Roddenberry