Top Superstition Quotes

Statism ends with an eye roll.

We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer's bel...

Superstition Definition

(n.) An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.

(n.) An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance; also, a rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion.

(n.) The worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects.

(n.) Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.

(n.) Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness.

Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the...

One way or another, all humans are superstitious.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things...

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised up...

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.

I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it's not really that intense or even that serious, but...

When a pope's election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

If a black black cat crosses your path, it suggests that the animal is going somewhere.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance...

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

When I argue with devout statists, sometimes other voluntaryists tell me that I'm wasting my time, opining that a particular statist is never going to "get it." I often respond by saying that that's r...