Money Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.”

— Peter L. Berger

“For rulers, religion is a great tool to rule the common people.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Religion provides the solace for the turmoil that it creates.”

— Byron Danelius

“Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people.”

— Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney

“Religion has no positive value.”

— David Silverman

“religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But any religion would be found lacking if judged solely by its human servants.”

— Joan Wolf

“more evil has been carried out in the name of religion than any other force in human history.”

— Daniel Silva

“Culture is religion externalized.”

— Anonymous

“The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake about it.”

— Lemmy Kilmister