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Quotes about religion
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. (Cusack Cyril)
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. (Cusack Cyril)
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. (Cusack Cyril)
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. (Cusack Cyril)
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A maker of idols is never an idolater. (Cusack Cyril)
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. (Cusack Cyril)
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity. (Cusack Cyril)
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -- uncertainty, progress, change -- into crimes. (Cusack Cyril)
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. (Cusack Cyril)
Religions are the cradles of despotism. (Cusack Cyril)
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. (Cusack Cyril)
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. (Cusack Cyril)
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain. (Cusack Cyril)
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. (Cusack Cyril)
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds. (Cusack Cyril)
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. (Cusack Cyril)
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. (Cusack Cyril)
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force. (Cusack Cyril)
It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient. (Cusack Cyril)
Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim. (Cusack Cyril)
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. (Cusack Cyril)
Religion is love; in no case is it logic. (Cusack Cyril)
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. (Cusack Cyril)
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. (Cusack Cyril)
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. (Cusack Cyril)
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