Behavior Quote by Sigmund Freud

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

— Sigmund Freud

We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual…

— Sam Harris

“Religion has clearly performed great services for human civilization. It has contributed much towards the taming of the asocial instincts. But not enough. It…

— Sigmund Freud

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

— Diane Ackerman

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“In no way can what the pupil learns, whether from books or industrial training, or from contact with forces and representatives of civilization, be…

— Thomas Lawrence Riggs

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

— Rajneesh

We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be…

— Karl Marx

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

— Albert Schweitzer

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

— Mary Douglas

Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more…

— Stephen Prothero

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

— Bill Maher