The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sincerity is all that counts. It's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People… — Tom Driberg Copy Share Image
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Atheism is the default position in any scientific inquiry, just as a-quarkism or a-neutrinoism was. That is, any entity has to earn… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“We do not need to eliminate religion, or let me be a bit articulate and say – we cannot eliminate religion from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. . . . Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our… — David Hume Copy Share Image
How did [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, 'My top priority for… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image