The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author.… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“Why do many believers insist on repeatedly pointing to the crimes of 20th century dictators who led officially atheistic societies as some… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
It has been claimed by many that Freethought does away with churches, creeds, Christs and even a God. So it does to… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy… — Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image
We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally. — Robert F. Almeder Copy Share Image
Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Those who refuse His mercy satisfy His justice in another way. Without His mercy, they cannot love Him. Without love for Him… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see..... — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our… — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.' — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image