Once Steve Fuller said that there is this idea that your responsibility as an intellectual is just to speak the truth as… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just… — Hector Avalos Copy Share Image
“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering,… — Bill Blass Copy Share Image
Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
“If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." ( Notebooks )” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of "crutch" for those who can't stand the reality of God — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“ Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.” — David Burns Copy Share Image
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The true charity is not giving bread or money, but providing employment. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
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