Quotes - Page W
Weinberg, Steven
"With or without religion, 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."
Wells, H. G.
"Moral indigination is envy with a halo."
West, Mae
"When it comes to a choice between two evils, I
always choose the one I haven't tried before."
Whitman, Cedric
"Mythology is what grown-ups believe, folk-lore is what
they tell their children, and religion is both."
Letter to Edward Tripp, 1969
Whitman, Walt
"They [the animals] do not make me
sick discussing their duty to God."
Wilde, Oscar
"When I think of all the harm the Bible has done,
I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
"Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that
has survived."
"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show
the world its own shame."
"People fashion their God after their own understanding. They
make their God first and worship him afterwards."
Winstanley, Gerrard
"While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after
a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes
are put out, that they see not what is their birthright."
[The Law of Freedom, 1652]
Woodworth, Fred
"[Fundamentalists] never wonder why, if herpes is sent by
'God' to scourge 'adulterers,' whooping cough and measles weren't
purposely created to lambaste children."