Cruelty Quote by Steve Allen
“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 needed is emphasis on morality and manners.”
“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 needed is emphasis on morality and manners.”
![“[...] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is a very close cousin to the fervor or congregations and the martial spirit of…” quote by Simon Blackburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8c1/simon-blackburn-14689_behavior_like-any-human-practices-those-of-religi_1597316.jpg)
![“[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.” quote by Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e24/bertrand-russell-69_atheism_there-has-been-every-kind-of-cruelty-pra_3230973.jpg)
![“We must face the fact that society is founded on intolerance. [. . .] We may prate of toleration as we will; but society must always draw a line somewhere between allowable conduct and insanity or crime, in spite of the risk of mistaking sages for lunatics and saviours for blasphemers. We must…” quote by George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dcb/george-bernard-shaw-68_quote_we-must-face-the-fact-that-society-is-fo_2004410.jpg)
