I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know. — James Randi Copy Share Image
He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their… — Alfred Goodwin Copy Share Image
This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so… — John Locke Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist... — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live? — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality? — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Oh, wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United… — Edmund Randolph Copy Share Image
Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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