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Philosophical literature3 quotes
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world…it is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx · 1883Political literature2 quotes
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. — Amiri Baraka · 1963Little do they know that they meet under an empty sky from which the gods have departed. — Hans Morgenthau · 1948Alternative rock1 quote
That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losin' my religion. — R.E.M. · 1991Psychological literature1 quote
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958Religious literature1 quote
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007Rock music1 quote
That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losin' my religion. — R.E.M. · 1991