Susan B. Anthony Quotes

So many of the people killed in the world have been killed in religious conflicts. There is no more dangerous person in the world than someone who is doing what God has commanded.

We have only God on our side; they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.

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

The evils which sapped the nation’s strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

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

The worst thing about religion was religious people.

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

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

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

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.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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

... mainstream churches now spend more time preaching against apartheid and colonialism than they do against real sins like pinching secretaries and pilfering from the office coffee pool. The Southern Baptists, because they were fortunate enough to flourish in a region where the false sun of the Enlightenment never shone, succeeded in escaping this grim fate.

God is the one who chooses our rulers.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals

Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes

Men are never safe against the temptation of claiming God too simply as the sanctifier of whatever we most fervently desire.