Quotes About Authority

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

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

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.