Quotes About People

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

Religion is the opiate of the people.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.

Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

People are my religion/Because I believe in them.

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

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.

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

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

"Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion."

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should.

Saints are usually killed by their own people.

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.