“Notwithstanding the fact that infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without admitting that Collins, who writes… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the… — J. M. Robertson Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.” — Fred Whitehead Copy Share Image
“ Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Indictment for blasphemy: That ... the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up… — Thomas Aikenhead Copy Share Image
“Slavery is bad, but even worse is blind discipleship to hallucinations.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“[The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever… — De Robigne Mortimer Bennett Copy Share Image
“The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of… — Adebowale Babatunde Ojowuro Copy Share Image
“Both freethought and anthropology are symptoms of the same underlying condition - the relative condition, the condition of difference.” — David Eller Copy Share Image
“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image