Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity. — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image. — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing… — Ludwig Feuerbach 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
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
There's a principle here and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to… — Morris Sullivan Copy Share Image
That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived. — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
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