The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking. — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The star of the Magi which pointed so unerringly to the cradle of Christ points not less unerringly to one of the… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
Talking about freedom in the country where people are afraid of losing their jobs is absurdity. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“But I can’t believe. The older I get, the more solid the wall becomes, like everything that was to be explored has… — Edgar Cantero Copy Share Image
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like most… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
