Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds… — Quentin Crisp 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 Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the… — Sam Ervin 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
I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It has been claimed by many that Freethought does away with churches, creeds, Christs and even a God. So it does to… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are,… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Take the life...lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider). — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature. — Theodore Schroeder Copy Share Image
Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
