Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.Edmund Burke
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.Montesquieu
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.Montesquieu
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?Montesquieu
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.Francis Bacon
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.Francis Bacon
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.Fyodor Dostoevsky
