People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you. — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done… — Emma Goldman 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
Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful… — Matilda Joslyn Gage 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
There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face… — John Dewey 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
“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would… — Sargent Shriver 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
To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image