“I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know. — James Randi Copy Share Image
“Speaking to a 'non-theist', 'How do you what you don't believe in if you have never read the Bible?'".” — Belle from Kentucky Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people. — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character? — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“atheism, as any rational human being may come to understand it, is not a logically coherent position, but has only been made… — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of… — H. L. Mencken 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
It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“Up to now, most atheists have simply criticized religion in various ways, but the point is to dispel it. In A Manual… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image