"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The 330 million gods and goddesses of the Hindu culture act as placebo for the masses, just like other gods of other… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
No creature but human has practiced such a meaningless cause as looking for the meaning of life. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The values imposed on you, such as statism, motherland, religion, traditions etc - are the instruments to manipulate you. Don't idolize the… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Morality, as far as I could see, originates in atheism and the realization that no higher power is coming along to feed… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker"… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If you describe yourself as "Atheist," some people will say, "Don't you mean 'Agnostic'?" I have to reply that I really do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
[Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed,… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard I tried, I was incapable of giving more importance to a hypothetical, post-mortem existence than to this very… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is contagious - so is a lack of it. Joyless Christians are a greater assault on the gospel than atheism. — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him. — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him. — John Stott Copy Share Image
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Take the life...lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
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