Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations. — Archibald MacLeish 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
People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
We are weak little Davids. But we are stronger than the Goliath of atheism, because God is on our side. The truth… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“[When asked about his thoughts on gods] I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope. — Otto von Bismarck 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
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Belief and non-belief has waxed and waned for centuries. This time atheism is here to stay. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.” — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. — Muhammad Naguib Copy Share Image
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image