Richard Eyre Quotes

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

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

All religions have been made by men.

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

I believe religion is man-made.

I can't bear Catholicism.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

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

Religion is all bunk.

Religion is induced insanity.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order ...

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

Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses.

There would never have been an infidel had there never been a priest.

Religion has caused more misery to all men in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

All organized religions are basically the same.

I don't believe in the concept of religion.

Religion and God are totally separate. Religion is created by government. God is God.