It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors.... Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for… — Luther Burbank 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
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
