“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Take the life...lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are,… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to… — William Rathbone Greg Copy Share Image
Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and… — Jim Herrick 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
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
But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests.… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men… — William Winwood Reade 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
Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
