#superstition

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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?


Rowan Atkinson


#cults #human-rights #liberty #logic #morality

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.


Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


#superstition #unknown #unseen #religion

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.


Susan Neiman


#religion #superstition #religion

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!


Ludwig von Mises


#politics #religion #society #superstition #violence

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.


Albert Einstein


#belief #myths #superstition #weakness #nature

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.


Emma Goldman


#emma-goldman #patriotism #superstition #respect

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?


Angela Carter


#reason #science #superstition #science

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.


Joseph Joubert


#capable #only #religion #souls #superstition

Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of intellectuals.


Meryle Secrest


#superstition #superstitious #faith