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
“There is yet another class that, having found that their own religion not only prevents free thinking but that some of its… — Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin Copy Share Image
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Whether it’s an Iraqi widow mourning her dead loved ones standing helplessly in the rubble of her former home or a dying… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
“The religion/ politics dichotomy is a false one. It isn't that politics has no role; it's that politics is simply inseparable from… — Ali A. Rizvi Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Atheism was supposed, and is even now supposed, to be the negation of all moral principle, of all moral foundations and bonds:… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Now, it would be wholly foolish to deny the existence of laws of nature. And if that is what we are talking… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If positive Christianity means love of one's neighbour, i.e. the tending of the sick, the clothing of the poor, the feeding of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
According to the bible, Heaven is completely perfect and Hell is completely evil. In Heaven, in order to keep everything completely perfect,… — William Carroll Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal… — Jack London Copy Share Image
When I think of an atheist I think of a person full of grief and depression, in a dark room. On the… — Zach Dutton Copy Share Image
“I could feel Monika nudging me furiously at this point, but I refused to look at her. I wasn’t feeling particularly reverent… — Zoe Heller Copy Share Image
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“In the early 1920s, Lewis hoped to be remembered as an atheist poet, whose bitter and forceful condemnations of an uncaring and… — Alister McGrath Copy Share Image
The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“We can therefore express the major elements in the New Atheists’ agenda as follows: Religion is a dangerous delusion: it leads to… — John C. Lennox Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Anyone I love takes away part of my freedom, but in that case it is I who wished it; and there is… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
“As all men are touched by God’s love, so all are also touched by the desire for His intimacy. No one escapes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
