RELIGION QUOTES XIV

quotations about religion


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Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
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journal, November 22, 1831


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To me, it seems that mankind can never achieve its highest potentialities till it has thrown off the incubus of historic (and prehistoric) religion.

WILLIAM ARCHER

William Archer as Rationalist: A Collection of His Heterodox Writings

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Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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