The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once… — George Agnew Reid Copy Share Image
Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
“The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened by our being dirty.… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“This doctrine of forgiveness of sin is a premium on crime. 'Forgive us our sins' means "Let us continue in our iniquity."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and… — Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin Copy Share Image
“Leave!’ Hazel Motes cried. ‘Go ahead and leave! The truth don’t matter to you. Listen,’ he said, pointing his finger at the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.'… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
“Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind,… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
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