I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it.… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical,… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It might be said that religious freedom in the American sense, incorporating the separation of church and state, has been the pivotal… — Joseph Leon Blau Copy Share Image
The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
