Bernard Katz Quotes

Religion is just mind control.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

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

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.

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

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Religion is an irrational construct.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

... force is the natural ally of superstition, and superstition knows it well.

You cannot struggle against religion. Those who have tried this have been doomed.