Behaviour Quote by Rodney Stark

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

— Samuel Richardson

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will…

— Martin Luther

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins

We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion,…

— John Keats

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

— Ilka Chase

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind…

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

— William Hazlitt

“Religion doesn't just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves-- to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when men operate…

— James L. Sutter

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

— Aulus Gellius

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I…

— Bertrand Russell

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

— Warren Buffett