If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Give me something to worship; whatever.” Cries the human soul” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on… — Lori Lipman Brown 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
“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
“I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
Neither give ear to the over-keen worshipers nor to the diehard atheists. They are both full of themselves and, therefore, they are… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
The big thing is to make this country... quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks… — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into… — George Washington Copy Share Image
What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The term ‘atheist,’ ” Kirsch continued, “should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a ‘nonastrologer’ or a ‘nonalchemist.’… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image