Quotes About Belief

What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

God save us from religion.

My own mind is my own church.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.