Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be a Christian. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further. — Jack Pritchard Copy Share Image
A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist. — Matt Dillahunty Copy Share Image
It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics. — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend… — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Every time a young girl gets raped, it's proof that there is no God. What kind of a God would just twiddle… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided outlook and look at everything in… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Let them all believe whatever they want. It is pointless to go on radio shows and wrangle over mystical claims. However, such… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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