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“Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.”
“Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger”
Source: The Art Of Seduction
“Religion is the highest vanity.”
“Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.”
“Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.”
“Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.”
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
“Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.”
Source: RELIGION IN THE MAKING
“Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.”
Source: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.”
Source: Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
“Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.”
“Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.”
“Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.”
“Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.”
Source: A Devil's Chaplain
“Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.”
“Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.”
“Religion is the most powerful entity on earth. A phenomenon that has conscripted millions to give or sacrifice their lives without so much as a minuscule query about their chosen beliefs or particular ideology. And today thousands of years on despite the huge advent, discovery and the advance of science forensic or otherwise, millions are still prepared and equipped to fall or kill in the name of their God, their Holy Scriptures, their messengers, their prophets and their faith’.”
“Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.”
“Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.”
“Religion is the nurture of backbiting tales vomited by authoritarians, eaten by subalterns.”
“Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.”
Source: Some of the
“Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.”
Source: A Diary of the French Revolution
“Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. These duties are, internally, love and adoration: externally, devotion and obedience; therefore provision should be made for maintaining divine worship as well as education. But each one has a right to entire liberty as to religious opinions, for religion is the relation between God and man; therefore it is not within the reach of human authority.”
“Religion is the opiate of the people.”
“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
“Religion is the opium of the People. She had been made to repeat that parrot-wise when she was a child, but since living in England she had come to consider Karl Marx a dull bigot and had started to take an interest in the occult. But Meg's fluttering hands and crazed confession told her that the slogan was true. Religion and the supernatural were drugs: mental poisons to kill reason and create insanity.”
Source: For Fear of Little Men
“Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.”
“Religion is the opium of the poor.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“Religion is the opposite of freedom. God is a dictator.
That's why dictators can so easily manipulate religious fundamentalists. They're used to it.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.”
“Religion is the path of divisions, boundaries and narrowness. Spirituality is the path of love, light, beauty and oneness.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion is the perception of that power which constructs the greatness of the centuries out of the paltriness of the hours.”
“Religion is the pious worship of God.”
“Religion is the politics of faith”
“Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.”
Source: The Epistle to the Romans
“Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.”
“Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”
Source: Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings
“Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.”
“Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.”
“Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.”
“Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.”
“Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul.”
“Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.”
Source: Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
“Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!”
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.”
Source: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right