There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father." — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life... — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
If there were a god, there would be no need for religion. If there were not a god, there would be no… — Ron Barrier Copy Share Image
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth… — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener… — Sean O'Casey 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
“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 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 I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
Atheism is a requirement for a complete human being. Religion is a crutch that is shackled to you, one you never really… — Brent Yaciw Copy Share Image
People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Atheism is certainly a terrible error, but it would be too easy simply to condemn it. It is necessary to examine why… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again — Tage Danielsson Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image