It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is… — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
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“Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. ( There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet .) { A… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
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I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
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It wouldn't matter if every single President since Washington had been a Bible-toting, evangelical Christian. They weren't, of course, but even if… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity… The law gives me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated,… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
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We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
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