“My name is Matt Besser, and I'm an Arkansas Razorback. My father is a Jew from Little Rock, Ark., my mother was… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
“The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“[ When asked 'Given the chance, how would you change the world ?'] It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would… — Björk Copy Share Image
The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia should be commended for acknowledging that his views are so strong that - should the Pledge case… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
“ Robert Ingersoll came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the rather dismal realities… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it… — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An Atheist need Proof from God that he is God! lol yes they special! They want God to come down from were… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Religion waited for man to evolve. It waited an eternity like a desolate lover awaiting its unborn soulmate. When man was able… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many… The light… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
“I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the fact that… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I have no more fear of death than I do of going to sleep. I have no psychotic, PMSing, invisible tyrant in… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
![“[ When asked 'Given the chance, how would you change the world ?'] It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc.” quote by Björk](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7a8/bjork-2024_atheism_when-asked-given-the-chance-how-would-yo_388693.jpg)
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