Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated… — Don Knotts Copy Share Image
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.' — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and… — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Or why should one refrain from burning hatred, whatever its basis--race, class, or ideology? Such hatred is in fact corroding many hearts… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't believe in a God. It's that I believe in more than a God could ever give me... — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The only way of the regular development is: thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Everything else is just a chimera. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him. — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
“People don't believe in God because it's true, but because they were the victims of early childhood indoctrination.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two:… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“People consider Islam as the best religion of world; I wonder if best of them is that much worse, I am really… — M.F.Moonzajer Copy Share Image
It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar. — Silius Italicus Copy Share Image