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
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
The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be… — Dan Barker 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
This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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 naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by… — Richard C. Carrier 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
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to… — Sir Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Pride is yet again in the way of our mind’s ability to accept that we may not be the most intelligent and… — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses, in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to… — Marilla Ricker Copy Share Image
By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“So you are Catholic? Didn't know that. I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, do not be a fanatic. Do not be a fanatic neither religious, nor ideological, nor political, neither… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so,it will be necessary first to slay… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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![“Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04e/anonymous-1_atheism_well-it-s-fairly-straightforward-there-i_2268045.jpg)
