It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact. — Anonymous 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
I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision. — Michael Newdow 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
The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent… — George Jean Nathan 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
The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information… — James A.C. Brown 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
Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Like many people, I have no religion, and I am just sitting in a small boat drifting with the tide. I live… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image