Seneca the Younger Quotes

Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses.

You cannot struggle against religion. Those who have tried this have been doomed.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Religion is just mind control.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Religion is all bunk.

Religion is an irrational construct.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve its own interests.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

God save us from religion.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.