If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“People thank God when God no longer sits on the throne. The angels descend down to deliver miracles because they are trying… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Basic atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief. There is a difference between believing there is no god… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“What am I to God? Nothing, a murky shadow. My passage on this earth is too rapid to leave any traces; it… — Luis Buñuel Copy Share Image
“Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, but he… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
“One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image