“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can't see — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it… — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages.… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“According to the anthropic principle proponents, if the universal constants (e.g. gravitation, the strong force, etc.) were just a nose-hair off, the… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people… — Matt McCormick Copy Share Image
In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power… — Plato Copy Share Image
I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“experienced a bout of atheism. With adolescent self-importance, I wondered why God would allow all this to happen to a fourteen-year-old girl.… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives. — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
“I am born here among the monsters; if I have to survive I must act like one of them.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your… — Jose Antonio Carrillo Copy Share Image
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science") — George Sterling Copy Share Image
Family is created to grow the Overman, not to continue the progeny; progeny is continued by the Overman anyway. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
