Allen Tate Quotes

Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses.

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

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

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

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

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

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

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

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.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

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.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

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 think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

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

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.

I resent all organised religions.