Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“People consider Islam as the best religion of world; I wonder if best of them is that much worse, I am really… — M.F.Moonzajer Copy Share Image
It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar. — Silius Italicus Copy Share Image
“I am an atheist but I promise whenever there is complete freedom of religion I would worship you as my private and… — M.F.Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy. — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
“If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with — while they wait for their death.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“if you truly want to know why I'm helping you, you won't get any easy answers. It's not because I believe in… — Autumn Christian Copy Share Image
My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I believe anymore. If God does exist, then He's just an asshole, creating this world full of human… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't believe in a God. It's that I believe in more than a God could ever give me... — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him. — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The only way of the regular development is: thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Everything else is just a chimera. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two:… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“People don't believe in God because it's true, but because they were the victims of early childhood indoctrination.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.” — Clyde Dsouza Copy Share Image
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image