Behavior Quote by Simon Blackburn

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is…

— Steve Allen

“Religious ritual invariably offers a sacrificial display of commitment to supernatural agents that is materially costly and emotionally convincing. Such ritual conveys willingness to…

— Scott Atran

"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.

— Louis Farrakhan

Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious rituals, and…

— Louis Farrakhan

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and…

— Jonathan Haidt

“The more people who take part in a ritual, the more justified it seems.”

— Jessie Burton

“Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to give people…

— Swami Vivekananda

“From a historical perspective, the spiritual journey is always tragic, for it is a lonely path fit for individuals rather than for entire societies.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Religion is collective insanity.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking…

— Ralph Ellison

“A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity, but the…

— Abhijit Naskar

Religion is a collective insanity.

— Mikhail Bakunin