Quotes About Control

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

Religion is a Snare and a Racket.

One People, one Reign, one Leader.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.

Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.