If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong. — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived. — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of… — Sidney Hook 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
'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.' — William Blake Copy Share Image
Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be...… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks… — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Like many people, I have no religion, and I am just sitting in a small boat drifting with the tide. I live… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
