The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist,' meaning the… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God… — Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw Copy Share Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I think evolution should be taught as an accepted principle. I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit… — Baron D. Holbach Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
God's nature is revealed most perfectly in the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the New Testament of… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“Much of the contemporary American atheistic movement seems to be treating atheism like a new kind of religion. … It's just that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We do not know how God created, what processes He used, for God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in… — Duane Gish Copy Share Image
Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into… — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Equality assertion of all cultures is disrespectful against human achievements. It is absurdity that the philosophy which got tangled at the level… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for… — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image