Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

We’re not fighting for Christianity but against human fanaticism of all kinds.

The worst thing about religion was religious people.

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

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.

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why... That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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

She died of galloping Christianity of the malignant California type.

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

There are a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

Men whose religion was excessively zealous split themselves into opposing factions, and once divided by a single mistake they disagreed on everything and came to be entirely at odds with one another.

Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them.

Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.

I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

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

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.