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Quotes About Manipulation

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
~ Julian Casablancas
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
~ George Orwell
The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
~ William Hazlitt
Religion is a Snare and a Racket.
~ Charles Taze Russell
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.
~ Jose Antonio Carrillo
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
~ George Santayana
We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
~ Chanakya
Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.
~ Thomas Paine
What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.
~ Zach Anner
Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.
~ George Carlin
religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.
~ Emma Goldman
When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.
~ John C. Danforth
Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law
~ Benjamin Franklin
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
~ John Irving
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
~ George Herbert
SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.
~ Sharyn McCrumb
It's the old shell game.
~ Dan Rather
The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.
~ Elizabeth Charles
If I don't believe in your god, it means he was incapable to manipulate me.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
I am scared of the day, when they turn atheism into another religion for controlling masses.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
The most coward person is the one who uses religion to win an argument.
~ Asma Naqi