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| The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille | | Karl Marx | |
| The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner | | Bible | |
| The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power. | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence | | Bertrand Russell | |
| The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger | | George Santayana | |
| The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey! | | Mark Twain | |
| The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobb | | Peter B. Medawar | |
| The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. | | Thomas Paine | |
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| There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners. | | Peter Ustinov | |
| There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst | | Thomas Paine | |
| There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. | | Sean O'Casey | |
| Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief | | Adolf Hitler | |
| This religion taught to her children what men have only been able to discover by their greatest knowledge. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. | | Plato | |
| Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you | | Bible | |
| Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
