God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think. — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why… — Richard Dawkins 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 whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
I could not believe that anyone who has read this book would be so foolish as to proclaim that the Bible in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a… — Pierre Bayle 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
Longhaired preachers come out every night, Tryin' to tell us what's wrong and what's right. But when asked about something to eat,… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
