As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The truth is already in front of us. Wise will believe but others are blinded by faith. — Malcolm Ribeiro Copy Share Image
“I did so many bad things to your god; if he or she exists; would have been pregnant now.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“[On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, and healthiest nations on earth. When nations are… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
You, my Brown Guard, will regard it as a matter of course that this German people should go only by the way… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant… — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
“To deny the existence of God would be to close your eyes to the beauty around you, to close your ears to… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease;… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Forget God just allow the Teletubbies into your life they're fun and cuddly. They're not a mass murderer. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette. — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer. — John Locke Copy Share Image
When people realize the majesty of the laws of nature, then they will see how far they have fallen away from the… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes of a being that does not… — Alom Shaha Copy Share Image