The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion… — Joseph Leon Blau Copy Share Image
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth;… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass.… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As I see it, creative achievement is the very heart of the human enterprise... The destiny of man, of all men and… — Paul Kurtz 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
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
