You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion. — Charles Chilton Moore Copy Share Image
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which… — Mark Noll Copy Share Image
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The problem with atheism, I find, under these circumstances, is that I have no one to despise but myself. If, however, I… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers,… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer...an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action of his. He had… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The universe made no promises. It owes you nothing. It did not invite you to be born. It made no commitments that… — Tobias M. Kohl Copy Share Image
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe… — Anthony John Patrick Kenny Copy Share Image
If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally. — Robert F. Almeder Copy Share Image
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. — George William Foote Copy Share Image
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image