Children Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Mind Psychology Religion
The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
Religion originates in the child's and young mankind's fears and need for help. It cannot be otherwise. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Indoctrinating a child with fundamentalist religious doctrine warps their instinctive attributes and causes them to contradict reason by default.” — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image