That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God… — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism at least in the sense of this work… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“At first Christ was a man – nothing more. Mary was his mother, Joseph his father. The genealogy of his father, Joseph,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however,… — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Atheism is not synonymous with anti-theism and not all atheists are 'active.' There are many non-believers who aren’t activists, who don’t oppose… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Today I must humbly thank Providence, whose grace has enabled me, who was once an unknown soldier in the War, to bring… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image