Attitude Quote by Sigmund Freud

Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives,…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Mary Douglas

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

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

— Albert Schweitzer

Religion is always in danger of growing apart from the people when its leaders forget to reflect carefully on their own behavior and come…

— Senora Roy

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

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

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

— Robert E. Howard

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

— Bill Maher

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest…

— Sam Harris

Once we as humans understand that we are responsible for our own actions and religion does not give you a free pass to do…

— David Hutchinson

“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