“A long time ago I learned that an atheist and a believer trying to have a discussion about God and religion is… — T.K. Decker Copy Share Image
“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“ Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“What can I do? Pray? Would God allow such agony? Sure he would, they would say. To test your faith. She laughed.… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
“Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say,… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did;… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“God is powerful. Even those who claim not to believe in him fear him. Though their mouths may confess to disbelieve in… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated… — Jack London Copy Share Image
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image