A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. — Douglas Adams 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
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
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
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
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose than to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Jesus was crucified for doing nothing And God is worshiped for even less.” — Porcupine Tree Copy Share Image