Quotes against religion
102 quotes from 58 people
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937“The Temple”—Written 1920; first published in Weird Tales, 6 No. 3 (September 1925)- H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937Letter to Robert E. Howard, (October 4, 1930)
If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I’d check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.
Bill Maherborn 1956Larry King Live, 11 August 2005; in response to a called-in question if he would become a believer if the Lord spoke to him
Karl Marx1818–1883A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction (1844)
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965“1901”, p. 67
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956), 1Puritanism—the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State, p. 624Man 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 SebondI 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)I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 62 (translated by H. L. Mencken, 1918)
