It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power. — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair. — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature. — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I could not believe that anyone who has read this book would be so foolish as to proclaim that the Bible in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy. — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed. — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused? — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer. — John Locke Copy Share Image
