Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a… — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and… — Kersey Graves Copy Share Image
I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
What is the ultimate solution to the origin of the Universe? The answers provided by the astronomers are disconcerting and remarkable. Most… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to… — William Rathbone Greg Copy Share Image
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and… — Jim Herrick Copy Share Image
