Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

Quote by Steven Weinberg

Topics: Character Quotes, Dignity Quotes, Evil Quotes, Religion Quotes

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I...

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I...

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts...

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts...

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold...

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold...

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people...

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people...

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the...

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the...

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

Never, never listen to anybody that tries to discourage you...

Never, never listen to anybody that tries to discourage you...

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks,...

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks,...

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

And whatever our faith -- whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The...

And whatever our faith -- whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The...

The quality of a person’s life is the sum total of the character, good or...

The quality of a person’s life is the sum total of the character, good or...

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth...

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth...

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we...

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we...

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest...

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest...

He who is passionate and hasty, is generally honest; it is your cool dissembling hypocrite,...

He who is passionate and hasty, is generally honest; it is your cool dissembling hypocrite,...

Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character.

Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character.

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what...

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what...

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is...

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is...

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest...

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest...

Money is the wise man's religion

Money is the wise man's religion