"Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman."
"It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?"
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Source: Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.8, Booklassic
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