The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. — Elbert Hubbard 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
I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a… — Immanuel Kant 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
I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
What James Madison and the other men of his generation had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment was that there… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The Free Exercise Clause at the very least was designed to guarantee freedom of conscience by prohibiting any degree of compulsion in… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
As I see it, creative achievement is the very heart of the human enterprise... The destiny of man, of all men and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the… — George William Foote Copy Share Image
While Jesus was at Jerusalem there came a voice from heaven. For what purpose was the voice sent? For the sake of… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image