Sayings on Religions

"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain always a child." - Cicero (-106 to -43)

"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." - Cicero (-106 to -43)

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within." - Cicero (-106 to -43)

"All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way." - Epictetus (55-135)

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

"He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity." - Voltaire (1694-1778)

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry (1736-1799)

"Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man." - Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"A nation that expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885)

"By dying, Christ left four nails, and Mohammed seven swords." - Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885)

"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom." - Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902)

"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana (1863-1952)

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." - Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

"The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man." - Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The human mind is capable of infinite self-deception." - Charles Lee Smith (1897-1964)

"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." - Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

"When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people, those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened." - John M. Richardson Jr. (1938-)


"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" (George Santayana).