No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
I believe in God... just in case. It's like there's some list somewhere and you don't want to be on it. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
“Atheism ... goes back to the Ancient Greek (a — a negative prefix, theos — god), evidencing the antiquity of the outlook… — Valerii A. Kuvakin Copy Share Image
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism is not based on strictly religious grounds and is not directed against the Jewish faith as such. However, all German Christians… — Ernst Hanfstaengl Copy Share Image
There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was… — William Rathbone Greg Copy Share Image
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“There was no hope on earth, and God seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the Son of God; others… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“My uncle Ernie didn't believe in God. At least that's what he said. But he always Went to church on Christmas. Which… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There is more evidence to support the possibility that there could be a crack smoking Velociraptor in a pink tutu playing the… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
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There is no necessity to beware of atheist, beware of that believer who once finds out that god does not exist and… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
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The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame… — William Blake Copy Share Image
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![“I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river…” quote by David Attenborough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/713/david-attenborough-2396_atheism_i-don-t-know-why-we-re-here-people-somet_1567364.jpg)
![“Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.” quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/581/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_absurdity_had-this-author-sir-w-drummond-academica_2448856.jpg)
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