I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and… — Adam Pascal Copy Share Image
When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature. — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the… — Robert Burns 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
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
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
What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.” — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“There is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism. — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children. — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image