A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility. — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Taxpayer is a person who pays for the maintenance of the state, so the phrase obligations of the citizen to the state… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“As Peter Berger has noted, the strategy of apologizing for Christian faith by trying to demonstrate its social utility is always eventually… — Craig M. Gay Copy Share Image
“It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One of Gunter’s fears was that the Bible was a ‘policy’, a deliberately manipulative hoax. This venerable theme, revived by Machiavelli, now… — Alec Ryrie Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary. — David Eller Copy Share Image
“If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars. — Horace Copy Share Image
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image