Committed Quote by Tom T. Hall

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

— Lucretius

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

— Wole Soyinka

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

— Voltaire

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this…

— Karen Armstrong

Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet…

— Salman Rushdie

“...the first object of religion next after the suppression of unlawful violence or appropriation should be the suppression of inaccurate statement, and to deny…

— LH Mills

“Prosecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly-marked feature of all law-religious, or religions established by law.…

— Thomas Paine

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use…

— Larry Flynt

That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable,…

— Richard Carrier

It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round…

— Henry M. Field