Susan B. Anthony Quotes

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

I am dealing with fanaticism.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.

Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Obstinacy in religious understanding leads to backwardness as in Muslims’, prevalence of violence and intolerance.

She died of galloping Christianity of the malignant California type.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and overzealous piety.

Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest.

We believed it was a Good vs Evil situation: that the WBC was right and everybody else was wrong, so there was no questioning. It was a very public war we were waging against the 'sinners.'

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!