A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman. — H. L. Mencken 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
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and… — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment. — Martin Buber 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
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
When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to… — Morris Sullivan Copy Share Image
Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
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