-Aquinas (Italy)

We acquire our religious beliefs not through meditation or our own understanding, but through foreign authorities and orders.

-Montaigne (France)

Religion is always a political need.

-Balzac (France)

Bad habits end in an instant, and religion is a lifelong torment.

-Balzac (France)

The so-called religion is to regard all our obligations as God's commands.

-Kant (Germany)

Religion is the dream of human spirit.

-Feuerbach (Germany)

The premise of religion is the opposition or contradiction between will and ability, desire and acquisition, purpose and result, imagination and reality, thought and existence.

-Feuerbach (Germany)