Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy. — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist,' meaning the… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious. — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country. — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and… — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
“Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's… — Henry F. Schaefer, III Copy Share Image
You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe that this universe's intricate laws manifest… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance… — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
“Atheist`s will seek a logical explanation when something is not understood where as Theist`s will call it God`s will.” — Christopher Paul Flateau Copy Share Image
The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image