Quotes About Fear

What indicates a person's weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

Fear is the mother of all gods.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

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.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.