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“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”

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Author:Anatole France

“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.”

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Author:John Henry Newman

“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.”

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Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay!”

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Author:Billy Joel

“IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING.”

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Book:Daniel Webster: The Completest Man

Source: Daniel Webster: The Completest Man

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

“Religion is the opium of the masses.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”

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Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”

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Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”

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Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”

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Author:Ambrose Bierce

“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”

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Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”

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Author:Stendhal

“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.”

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Book:DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government

Source: DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government

“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.”

Source: The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: On life and essays on religion, tr. by Aylmer Maude

“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”

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Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”

“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“Where there is fear there is no religion.”

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.”

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir