There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country. — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little… — Tommy Smothers Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.” — Tai Solarin Copy Share Image
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.'… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
“Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. What… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding — Plato Copy Share Image
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. — Vera Kistiakowsky Copy Share Image
“One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a” FALSE PROMISE”.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him; on that level… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Person who fills his inner emptiness with positive opinions of surrounding people is like a person who has to eat hay because… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
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