The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I think we have underestimated their Gods; they have made millions stupid, and we are even not able to get one out… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics,… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
“We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a… — Baron D'Holbach Copy Share Image
“When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
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