Lucretius Quotes

To what great evils has religion been able to impel men.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.

I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

Jewish extremism and Islamic fanaticism fed each other.

Verses of the Koran and of the Prophet are being isolated and used to justify violence.

Obstinacy in religious understanding leads to backwardness as in Muslims’, prevalence of violence and intolerance.

Over the course of history many religions have fallen victim to violent interpretations.

In El Paso, the people are homicidal but orthodox.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Islam is not the enemy, religious extremism is.

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

Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions, including Christianity.

Religious extremism. We hear about it all the time. We see it all the time. Heck, most of us are just sick of talking about it all the time.

We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.

It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable... The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.