It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible. — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism… — Alejandro Amenábar Copy Share Image
“If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls… — Gora Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering,… — Bill Blass Copy Share Image
I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
“Religious freedom doesn't include the freedom to disregard the law and restrict another's freedom to believe and act differently. No one's forcing… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you — Hans Conzelmann Copy Share Image
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian. — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another. — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge. — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place. — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tragedy!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image