Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
I believe in God... just in case. It's like there's some list somewhere and you don't want to be on it. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“My uncle Ernie didn't believe in God. At least that's what he said. But he always Went to church on Christmas. Which… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well… — William Chillingworth 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
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You don't want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our 'Truth,' and having tax-exempt organizations… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the… — J. M. Robertson Copy Share Image
The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
There is no necessity to beware of atheist, beware of that believer who once finds out that god does not exist and… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
There is more evidence to support the possibility that there could be a crack smoking Velociraptor in a pink tutu playing the… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Faith allows an evasion of those difficulties which the atheist confronts honestly. And to crown all, the believer derives a sense of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth… — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
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