I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Let us be honest. Did all the priests of Rome increase the mental wealth of man as much as Bruno? Did all… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You may not violate the rights of one human being, even if it is suggested to be done for the sake of… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
“God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.” — James Agee Copy Share Image
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would… — Peter Kreeft 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
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.” — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the case… — David Hume Copy Share Image
