"Thanks to God, I am still an atheist."
- Luis Bunuel
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
- John Buchan
"What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean."
- Christopher Fry
"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."
- William Ralph Inge
"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
- Edmund Burke
"Every dicator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power."
- Benazir Bhutto
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world . . . It is the opium of the people."
- Karl Marx
"Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the spheres of private life."
- William Lamb
"There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible."
- Sean O'Casey
"Our religion is made so as to wipe out vices; it covers them up, nourishes them, incites them."
- Michel de Montaigne
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
- Jonathon Swift