History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison Copy Share Image
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."" — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish.… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
“To have faith in a religion, any religion, is to accept at some primary level that its particular language of words and… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Religions can be lethal. If they are for you, there is an antidote. It’s called faith, which has nothing to do with… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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![“...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.” quote by Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/274/thomas-paine-267_age-of-reason_it-would-be-more-consistent-that-we-call_2934720.jpg)
![“I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise genetic basis to faith. But there is a genetic basis to a psychological predisposition that manifests itself as faith and religion under the right conditions.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d34/richard-dawkins-115_approach_i-think-that-paul-bloom-s-approach-and-o_497908.jpg)
![“[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.” quote by Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ad/richard-p-feynman-495_faith_when-a-young-person-loses-faith-in-his-r_1473804.jpg)
