Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Next quotes

• B. F. Skinner:

  I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about r

• B. F. Skinner:

  I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In

• B. F. Skinner:

  I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not a

• B. F. Skinner:

  I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not.

• B. F. Skinner:

  I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, con

• Baruch Spinoza:

  There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.