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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.”

People Men States God Religion Order Stuff Differences Church Common Dying Quiet Authority Hunger Ill Excellent One Man

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .”

Book Reason Religion Judgment Ill Theology Fitting Spectacles

Book:My Beliefs

Source: My Beliefs

“Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.”

Ifs Wells Religion Dangerous Highest Ill Intellect Unhappy Endowment

Book:Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes

Source: Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes

“The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.”

War Religion Christ Ill Good Will Christendom Ill Will

Book:Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations

Source: Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations

“Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.”

Seems Today Past Remember Religion Church Personality Catholic Rewards Ill Violent Obsessed Catholic Church Sexually Remembering The Past

Author:Matthew Fox