The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't believe in a God. It's that I prefer to have my beliefs to offer more than a… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the oldest ideas we have: 'the idea that it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep… — James T. Shotwell Copy Share Image
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“By the way, a Bulgarian I met lately in Moscow," Ivan went on, seeming not to hear his brother's words, "told me… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different...… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principles of the universe and existence.… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are… — John Milton Copy Share Image
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence,… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
“Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“To believe that there is no God takes infinitely more faith than to believe God exists, because all the evidence must be… — David Servant Copy Share Image
“I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince… — Anton LaVey Copy Share Image
To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades,… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges. I was… — Ten Bears Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and… — Theodore Schroeder Copy Share Image
Over our history there are always those who want to take this wall of separation and remove a brick here or there… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
