Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Religion is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity, it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.- Sigmund Freud
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. - Karl Marx
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience. - August Strindberg
Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other. - H. P. Lovecraft
Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts. - John Locke
Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. - Ambrose Bierce
Religion; Humanity’s greatest folly, greatest curse. - Kevin Harris
Religions are the cradles of despotism. - Marquis De Sade
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