Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I think we have underestimated their Gods; they have made millions stupid, and we are even not able to get one out… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
You are your own temple and you find tranquility being confined to yourself. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Pseudo-intellectuals differ from real intellectuals in that they make bubbles of complex phrases. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Leaving one religion for the sake of another one is like breaking with a rapist for the sake of dating a misogynist.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.” — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place… — David Hillis Copy Share Image
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
“Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and… — Travis Culliton Copy Share Image
Everyone has right not to recognize the sovereignty of the state and thus he has right to avoid the taxes. Human freedom… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“The word ‘God’ is a part of language and its grammar. Even if the whole world turns atheist tomorrow, the incredible arrangement… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism,… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
“I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering,… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience. — Hans Denck Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour. — Hemant Mehta Copy Share Image
If you stick to the old values and say that you were educated in this way, so you were trained in this… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image