The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual. — Herbert Spencer 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
Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
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
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist.… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling,… — Barbara Ehrenreich 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
Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist... — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality? — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Oh, wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United… — Edmund Randolph Copy Share Image
What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live? — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
