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Quotes About Belief

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.
~ Woody Allen
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.
~ Bertrand Russell
I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
~ Susan B. Anthony
If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing-up.
~ Woody Allen
A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.
~ Voltaire, The Works: Voltaire
One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
~ Voltaire
The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
~ Edmund Burke
Vision is the end of religion.
~ William Blake
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.
~ Charles Darwin
When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
~ Sigmund Freud
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
~ Francis Bacon
As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.
~ Charles Darwin
If only God would give me a clear sign like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
~ Woody Allen
Heaven goes by favor if it went by merit you would stay out and your dog would go in.
~ Mark Twain
The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.
~ Muhammad Ali
If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?
~ Benjamin Franklin
Religion is the opium of the people.
~ Karl Marx
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
~ Stephen Hawking
The thing I hate about religion is, they ban what they have done and force us to do what they haven't done.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
As a motivation —for humans, but Christians especially— guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants of them. Never let them realize that.
~ Geoffrey Wood