The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.” — George Everett Macdonald Copy Share Image
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life... — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity… — John Courtney Murray Copy Share Image
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.” — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and… — Kersey Graves Copy Share Image
Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Anyone who is unimpressed with sneering atheism will be unimpressed by the famous science fiction works by Margaret Atwood or the fantasy… — John C Wright Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us,… — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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
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