The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate… — Thomas Jefferson 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
One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason. — Gherman Titov Copy Share Image
Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks,… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image