I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the 'human leg and foot bones,' rather than… — Edward Babinski Copy Share Image
A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The imperfections of religions can only be understood by their unfollowers, not followers.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book says: 'He made us all… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve… — Sean Kamali Copy Share Image
“And one thing you would never want to do is keep your children away from any Tree of Knowledge. How could you… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, but he… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“We live and we die, but we are made of sterner stuff. The carbon atoms in our fingernails, the calcium in our… — Keith Heyer Meldahl Copy Share Image
What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a… — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived. — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power. — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image