Larry Flynt Quotes

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

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

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.

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

I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.

The moment religion organizes into a specific creed it becomes a political force. From Moses down to Brigham Young, every creed-founder has been a Statebuilder.

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

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

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.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

Religion is just mind control.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

I'm against organised religion of any kind.

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

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

God save us from religion.

Religion is an irrational construct.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

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