The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
“Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
