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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938In a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a eulogy for Darrow by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1938)
- Anti-Religion
- Happiness
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)
- Anti-Religion
- Science
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 11. Memes: the new replicators
- Anti-Religion
- Faith
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (15 April 1992)
- Anti-Religion
- Faith
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Root of All Evil? (2006)
- Anti-Religion
The Man of Galilee, the Carpenter, the workingman who became the revolutionary agitator of his day soon found himself to be an undesirable citizen in the eyes of the ruling knaves and they had him crucified.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
- Christianity
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Denis Diderot1713–1784Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and … people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
Denis Diderot1713–1784Conversations with a Christian Lady (1774)
- Anti-Religion
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Remark, attributed in John Gordon Stewart Drysdale and John James Drysdale, The Protoplasmic Theory of Life (1874), p. 279 (note).
- Anti-Religion
What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this⁠—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech to the Oxford Diocesan Conference (25 November 1864), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (1929), p. 108
- Science
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)In context
If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Letter to Mme. N. D. Fonvisin (1854), in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family and Friends (1914), trans. Ethel Colburn Mayne, Letter XXI, p. 71
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter VIIn context
- Morality
The negro worked and took his pay in religion and the lash.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895Our Composite Nationality (1869)
- Slavery
Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won.
Will Durant1885–1981III—Caesar and Christ (1944), Chapter 30, part 1, p. 652
- Christianity
- History