Religion Scam Quotes

#1. I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.

Lenny Bruce

#2. It is now a building in which individuals toil independently in accordance with top-down, need-to-know reductionist planning. They might as well be spread around the globe.

Stanley McChrystal

#3. A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

Emily Post

#4. The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H.L. Mencken

#5. Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.

Jose Antonio Carrillo

#6. Civilization and profits go hand in hand

Calvin Coolidge

#7. I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

Don Henley

#8. I'd been dating my husband for about a year, and I'd already kissed George Clooney, Ashton Kutcher and Gerard Butler. Awesome year, right?

Judy Greer

#9. If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

Norton Juster

#10. Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.

A.R. Rahman

#11. I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

Laura Linney

#12. Ben laughed. "You think all religions are scams, don't you?"
"Yes, I suppose I do," Epstein said. "But the religions are mostly scamming themselves. That they scam others is usually a side-effect.

James L. Halperin

#13. No man can give me any word but Wait ...

Gwendolyn Brooks

#14. Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so - pardon the pun - so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.

Stephen King

#15. A phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.

Judith Butler

#16. The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#17. I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

Agnes De Mille