People Quote by Rigoberta Menchu

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

— Frank Herbert

Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which…

— R. R. Reno

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 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 is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

— Julian Casablancas

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

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

— Ziggy Marley

...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

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with…

— Jeremy Bentham

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

— Jack Pritchard

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

— Roger Williams