“The religious man will constantly look for the proof of Heaven and Hell; while the atheist man will constantly look to disprove… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of… — Adebowale Babatunde Ojowuro Copy Share Image
I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be "You came up with the idea. Why do… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“I remember Bob saying, 'Some people who believe in God are good, and some people who believe in God are not good.… — Leslie Berlin Copy Share Image
An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it… — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“The remnant of the human species must understand that faith was the narcotic that fueled the insanity of religion. Conclusion: Invisible love… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
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