To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains. — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so? — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
When something looks cheap, it looks cheap and that is all, and there is no justification for this cheapness. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
“When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There must be much more going on behind the scenes. The pivotal question is this: What is behind the deep-seated hatred that… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
“[When asked about his thoughts on gods] I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination. — George Tyrrell Copy Share Image