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“How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.”

“some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.”

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Book:I'Ve Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations With God

Source: I'Ve Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations With God

“The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.”

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Book:Notes on the State of Virginia

Source: Notes on the State of Virginia

“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

Life Inspirational Mind Believe Form Religion Causes Quiet All Things Endless Useless Behave Strife Great Power

Book:Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)

“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

“Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.”

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Book:Samuel Butler's notebooks

Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks