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Belief Systems Quotes

"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities."
Sigmund Freud
"Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality."
Sigmund Freud
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
Sigmund Freud
"Religion is the opium of the people."
Vladimir Lenin
"The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam does not worry me in the least."
Sam Harris
"I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder"
Bill Maher
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion"
Steven Weinberg