Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable? — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core.… — Matthew Parris Copy Share Image
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Once one accepts the premise of the Declaration of Independence - that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well… — William Chillingworth Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur.… — Lowell P. Weicker, Jr Copy Share Image
The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
![“The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8e7/thomas-jefferson-43_benevolent_the-christian-religion-when-divested-of_1371700.jpg)
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