A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.) — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character? — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy. — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage. — James Randi Copy Share Image
The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without… — Jim Herrick Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that… — James Randi Copy Share Image
The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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