I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor… — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
