I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance… — Alexander Markovich Polyakov Copy Share Image
With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Live with the consequences of your deeds and enjoy the warmth they create. The only warmth in the cold, indifferent universe is… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
“What is natural selection? Do organisms develop due to an environment, or does the environment only trigger the potential to evolve in… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In speaking of the fear of religion, I don’t mean to refer to the entirely reasonable hostility toward certain established religions and… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One of the great things about having your own invisible god is you can make him/her/it as big and grand as your… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are,… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
“Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“All the three monotheist religions (Jewish, Christianity and Islam)claims that their God (Yahweh, God and Allah) created humans in a similar way:… — Ajay Kansal Copy Share Image
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. When atheists become… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place'… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is… — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Copy Share Image
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Taxpayer is a person who pays for the maintenance of the state, so the phrase obligations of the citizen to the state… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“the difference between an atheist and a highly religious person is that the former is an atheist about n Gods while the… — Dawkins Richard Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
