An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can't see — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
“Pride is yet again in the way of our mind’s ability to accept that we may not be the most intelligent and… — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
“Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious… — Paul Kurtz 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
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
I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free. — Eleanor Roosevelt 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
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. — Ruth Hurmence Green 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
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
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators; but we must not forget that the religion is still out… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
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