Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
“We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ. — William Anthony Donohue Copy Share Image
Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny… An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox believer… — David Marshall Brooks Copy Share Image
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Once Steve Fuller said that there is this idea that your responsibility as an intellectual is just to speak the truth as… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray? — Charles R. Moore Copy Share Image
