They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father." — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not. — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think. — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
People make a lot of fuss about my kids having such supposedly 'strange names', but the fact is that no matter what… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a preacher, I'm working with the crowd, watching the crowd, trying to bring them to that high point at a certain… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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