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Belief systems Quotes

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

"People only see what they are prepared to see "

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion"

"Religion teaches you to be satisfied with non-answers. Science is about the opposite"

"How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined"

"The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam does not worry me in the least."

"The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music"

"The most universal and effective binding agent of complex human societies is shared beliefs"

"For good people to do evil things, it takes religion"

"Good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things, but only religion can make good people do bad things"

"Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it"

"Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power."

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