What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep… — James T. Shotwell Copy Share Image
The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty.… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion… — Gustave Le Bon 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
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men. — William Blake Copy Share Image
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof… — Confucius Copy Share Image
