Peter Jennings Quotes

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

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.

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

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.

Religion is just mind control.

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

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

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

Religion is all bunk.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

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

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

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

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

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

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.