Ashes Quote by Thomas Paine

“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this…

— Thomas Paine

“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and…

— Philip Pullman

You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief,…

— Bertrand Russell

The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five…

— Barbara G. Walker

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

— Camille Paglia

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of…

— C.J. Sansom

“since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the…

— Tom Robbins

“In the history of mankind, more human beings were killed in the name of religion than for any reason,”

— Bobby Akart

The religion of the God who became man has met the religion (for such it is) of man who makes himself God. And what…

— Pope Paul VI

“We humans have a natural tendency to search for solutions and irrational explanations as soon as we are confronted with fear. Since the dawn…

— Manuel Lempereur

“The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples…

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio