Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes. — Hugh Elliot Copy Share Image
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. When atheists become… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
