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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941River out of Eden (1995)
- Science
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Mother Night (1962)
- Faith
Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899“Some Mistakes of Moses” (1879) Section II, “Free Schools”.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
- Religion
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis” (1933)
- Religion
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Annie Besant1847–1933The Freethinker’s Text-Book: Christianity
- Women
I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
Montesquieu1689–1755Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721), No. 29. (Rica writing to Ibben)
- Christianity
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
- God
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)
The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920), Part I, The Present Condition of Russia, Ch. 1: What Is Hoped From Bolshevism
- Politics
Jesus Christ⁠—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens⁠—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
- Christianity
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #83
- God
What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965“1901”, p. 67
- God
Blasphemy is the word that the majority hisses into the ear of the few.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Religion
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)