Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Billy Graham

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Thomas Paine

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas Paine

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Thomas Paine

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