I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life? — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their… — Alfred Goodwin Copy Share Image
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I'm a Skeptic. And I'm a Journalist. I look up things in the library—a lot! I believe in the motto of Missouri,… — Earl Lee Copy Share Image
From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth. — Charles Chilton Moore Copy Share Image
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Atheism is not synonymous with anti-theism and not all atheists are 'active.' There are many non-believers who aren’t activists, who don’t oppose… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1500 years. You outlawed them from the universities or any teaching careers,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did;… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe… — Anthony John Patrick Kenny Copy Share Image
According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God.… — John Baillie Copy Share Image