Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The argument from design stands or falls on whether it can be demonstrated that some aspect of the universe such as its… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core.… — Matthew Parris Copy Share Image
They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
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