Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Someone tells us that God loves us as a father loves his children. We are reassured. But then something awful happens. Some… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
While Jesus was at Jerusalem there came a voice from heaven. For what purpose was the voice sent? For the sake of… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors....… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
Dan Moldea, the lead investigator for Larry Flynt's ongoing quest to uncover sexual indiscretions of Republican congressional members, has now admitted he… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image