“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around… It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The remnant of the human species must understand that faith was the narcotic that fueled the insanity of religion. Conclusion: Invisible love… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
“Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Suppose after all that death does end all. Next to eternal joy, next to being forever with those we love and those… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“if you are suffering without a belief in God, then there is not a lot of hope that your pain has any… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors… Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“No text, being human creation, is free from flaws – it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have,… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
I don't believe is a statement for me, not a stand. Ignosticism reminds me how much I don't know. It doesn't mean… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
Human rights are being told all over the world, but there is no state where the economical freedom is being told. Economical… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Basic atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief. There is a difference between believing there is no god… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you,… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
“People thank God when God no longer sits on the throne. The angels descend down to deliver miracles because they are trying… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be...… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
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