The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
“When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
“The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a… — George Mason Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' --… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“There's atheism, and then there's anti-theism, know what I mean? Atheists don't believe in God, but they don't care if you do,… — Duncan Ralston Copy Share Image
The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Aristocracy of the soul cannot be denied because of the blind equality. We can get lost due to ideas about equality. If… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I can't think of any decision where the entire Congress immediately rushes to condemn a decision by the court. It's getting to… — Stephen Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot,… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
