"Fundamentalists are like the fir trees in German forests: they cannot stand alone, and are only stable when crowded together, branches locked with those of their brothers.
That is why we must always fear them, because they will always hate us for our individualism."

Brent Yaciw

"I'm sickened by all religions.
Religion has divided people.

I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock."

Howard Stern

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

- Stendhal

"If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing"

Anatole France

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

- Deepak Chopra

“We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become what we long to be.”

~Orson Swett Marden