Bread Quote by Vera Farmiga

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

— Desmond Tutu

“Religion is like a knife. If you use it the wrong way you can cut yourself.”

— Eric Weiner

“Religion is like a knife; in the hands of a surgeon, it heals, but in the hands of a murderer, it kills.”

— Luke Gracias

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but…

— PZ Myers

Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

— John Selden

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

— Frank Herbert

“Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal.”

— Jim Wallis

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made…

— Theodore Dreiser

Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good…

— Richard Dawkins

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

— Roger Williams

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

— Thomas Hobbes