Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
If I deny the existence of a God - if I deny the idea of a gold paved city with pearly walls… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
“Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than… — Travis Culliton - "Why I love my Prozac Copy Share Image
This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and… — Thomas Helwys Copy Share Image
Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught!… — Frank Zappa 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
“The cold logic of mid-twentieth-century atheism has now given way to an era of renewed 'spirituality,' but it is an awakening more… — J. Mark Bertrand Copy Share Image
Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however,… — Sandra Day O'Connor 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
“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
The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
ATHEISM... The Belief That There Was Nothing And Nothing Happened To Nothing, And Nothing Magically Exploded For No Reason, Creating Everything And… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states,… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party,… — Lloyd Billingsley Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image