The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision.” — M.F. Moonzajer 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
“[A] person is formed from a continuum of words and actions over time and cannot be reduced to a fixed “self” that… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
My atheism doesn't define my day-to-day life at all. But I realize - and maybe it is because, unlike people who sort… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Person who does not feel every cell of his body and who does not find his soul in every cell of his… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering,… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
