We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
“Atheism leads 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
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“...atheism is not a conscious act of turning away from all gods. It is simply the final destination for those who think.… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines;… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion,… — William Henry Bragg Copy Share Image
The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client… — Geoffrey Fieger Copy Share Image
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It might be said that religious freedom in the American sense, incorporating the separation of church and state, has been the pivotal… — Joseph Leon Blau Copy Share Image
“It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that… — Alain de Boton Copy Share Image
One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
