#religion

"We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"

"Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes."

"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."

"You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time."

"Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly."

"When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood."

"You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too."

"Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so."

"Without God all things are permitted."

"Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters."

"Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat."

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

"If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!"

"It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money."

"Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion."

"A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged."

"Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness."

"As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since."

"We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome."