Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now? — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."" — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken. — Jewel Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of… — David Brooks 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
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
Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do… — Marco Polo Copy Share Image
It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
“The traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thoroughly criticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes,… — J.L. Mackie Copy Share Image
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The concepts of social equality and social justice are not always the same. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
