I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together. — Pope Boniface VIII Copy Share Image
I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision. — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for establishment clause purposes, to a profession that we are a… — Alfred Goodwin Copy Share Image
I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card… — Morris Sullivan Copy Share Image
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny… An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men,… — Zeno of Citium Copy Share Image
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger… — James Madison Copy Share Image
All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe,… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image