The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“If you believe, God is the supreme creator of everything, then God is also the one who gave you a brain. Use… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Take the Holocaust for example: Why did God allow Hitler to kill millions of innocent Jews? Because God didn't want to step… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“When you consider atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, their strongest arguments are “moral arguments” against… — Taylor R. Marshall Copy Share Image
In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth;… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Praying five times a day does not make a person religious, helping five people does. Saying grace before meal does not make… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass.… — Frank Zappa 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
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
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
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
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
Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Let's drop the whole 'atheist evangelism' thing and call out bullshit questions like 'what does atheism have to offer?' for just what… — Rebecca Watson Copy Share Image
There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“ Napoleon , when hearing about Laplace 's latest book, said, ' M. Laplace , they tell me you have written this… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
