Hypocrisy Quote by William Hazlitt

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

— Samuel Richardson

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will…

— Martin Luther

“Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human…

— Blaise Pascal

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

— Ben Jonson

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

— Emile Durkheim

Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be…

— Richard Baxter

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

— Karl Marx

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

— Emile Durkheim

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I…

— Bertrand Russell

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is…

— Blaise Pascal

All religions have been made by men.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville