God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo? — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
"Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity. — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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