Quotes by Johann Most

“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”

“The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives”

“The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.”

“We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.”

“Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable”

“As set forth by theologians, the idea of God is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing”

“A god who created man after his own image, and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him”

“The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man after his own image, and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.”

“It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - voluntarily sell - himself every day and hour to the beast of property.”

“God - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.”

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.