religion Quotes

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.