„Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable.“

„Who science has and art
He has religion too
Who neither of them owns
Religion is his due.“

—  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, and politician 1749 - 1832

Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion
As quoted in Jost Lemmerich's "Science and Conscience: The Life of James Franck" (2011), p. 261.
Variant translation: "The man who science has and art, He also has religion. But he who is devoid of both, He surely needs religion." (as quoted in "Homilies of science" by Paul Carus (1892) and The Open Court, Weekly Journal, Vol. II (1887).
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)

„Media pundit John Gibson's controversial statements brought criticism when he referred to religions, other than his own, as "wrong". Christians tolerate those who are "following the wrong religion… as long as they're civil and behave"“

—  John Gibson (media host) American radio talk show host 1946

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512010018

„Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.“

—  Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979

Source: Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

„Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, livre Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

„We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.“

—  Arthur Stanley Eddington British astrophysicist 1882 - 1944

Science and the Unseen World (1929)
Contexte: We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.<!--VII, p.68

„Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.“

—  Denis Diderot French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713 - 1784

Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)

„A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.“

—  Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Source: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

„The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.“

—  Thomas Paine, livre The Age of Reason

Source: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795), Chapter III: Conclusion.

„All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.“

—  Roger Ebert American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942 - 2013

Source: Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Ch. 55 : Go Gently
Contexte: Raised as a Roman Catholic, I internalized the social values of that faith and still hold most of them, even though its theology no longer persuades me. I have no quarrel with what anyone else subscribes to; everyone deals with these things in his own way, and I have no truths to impart. All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it. I know a priest whose eyes twinkle when he says, “You go about God’s work in your way, and I’ll go about it in His.”

„Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?“

—  Christopher Paolini, livre Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

„Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell, spirituality is for those who’ve been there.“

—  David Bowie British musician, actor, record producer and arranger 1947 - 2016

„Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.“

—  Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921)
1920s

„It is time for those who love liberal democracy to join hands with Islam's reformists. Here is a clue to who's who: Moderate Muslims denounce violence committed in the name of Islam but insist that religion has nothing to do with it; reformist Muslims, by contrast, not only deplore Islamist violence but admit that our religion is used to incite it.“

—  Irshad Manji Feminist from Canada, author, journalist, activist 1968

Irshad Manji: Islam Needs Reformists, Not 'Moderates' http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703992704576305412360432744 The Wall Street Journal (7 May 2011)

„It is moreover to weaken in those who profess this Religion a pious confidence in its innate excellence and the patronage of its Author; and to foster in those who still reject it, a suspicion that its friends are too conscious of its fallacies to trust it to its own merits.“

—  James Madison 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817) 1751 - 1836

§ 6
1780s, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments (1785)

„The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.“

—  Muhammad Ali African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942 - 2016

As quoted in Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (1999) by Mike Marqusee<!-- p. 213 -->; also quoted in the International Socialist Review Issue 33 (January–February 2004) http://www.isreview.org/issues/33/muhammadali.shtml
Contexte: Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.

„The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts:
Those with brains, but no religion,
And those with religion, but no brains.“

—  Al-Maʿarri Medieval Arab philosopher 973 - 1057

As quoted in The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (1984) by Amin Maalouf, p. 37
Variant translations:
The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern (1906) by John Mackinnon Robertson, Vol. I, Ch. VIII: Freethought under Islam, p. 269
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
This form of the statement has been most commonly misatributted — to Avicenna, in A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science (1950) by Joseph McCabe, p. 43, and later to Averroes, in The Atheist World‎ (1991) by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, p. 46.
Original: اِثْنَانِ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ ذُو عَقْلٍ بِلَا دِينٍ وَآخَرُ دَيِّنٌ لَا عَقْلَ لَهُ

„You should never revile people who are satisfied with their own religion… Listen you disciples of Christ! I, solicitous of your own welfare, tell you this truthfully… Diminution of Hari’s religion, anger, cruelty, subversion of authority and dissensions among the populace would result from reviling the religion of others. Increase of God’s religion, contentment, gentleness, harmony between the ranks would result from praising all religions. For each person his own religion is best; the same religion would be perilous for another person.“

—  John Muir (indologist) Scottish Sanskrit scholar and Indologist 1810 - 1882

Subaji Bapu, MataparIkshAsikshA, from his reply to John Muirs Matapariksha, Cited by R.F. Young and quoted from Goel, S. R. (2016). History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. Chapter 10. ISBN 9788185990354 https://web.archive.org/web/20120501043412/http://voiceofdharma.org/books/hhce/
About John Muirs Matapariksha

„People use religion, dogma, community as an excuse to justify their own intolerance, or their own phobia from something that doesn't fit into their conceived notions of gender and of identity.“

—  Abby Stein Trans activist, speaker, and educator 1991

On Popsugar, June 5, 2017 https://www.popsugar.com/news/Meet-Transgender-Activist-Abby-Stein-43598113
2017

„Do you know the penalty for blasphemy? It's death, just as it always is whenever religion is threatened, especially the Abrahamic religions. Violence is only the answer for those who don't understand the question, and religion is a misunderstanding of everything.“

—  Aron Ra Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast 1962

Youtube, Other, Republican Theocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjNg7nQvB0 (November 4, 2012)