The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience. — Hans Denck Copy Share Image
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family,… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the… — Henry Thomas Buckle 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
Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow. — Victor Hugo 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 Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
