My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him. — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around… It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech… A million voters with IQs below 60 have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist,… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar. — Silius Italicus Copy Share Image
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy. — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained. — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade. — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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![“Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a3f/abraham-lincoln-88_atheism_oh-that-his-thanksgiving-message-is-some_2216382.png)
