Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics. — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. When atheists become… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to… — William Rathbone Greg Copy Share Image
Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and… — Jim Herrick Copy Share Image
I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits… Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and… — Kersey Graves Copy Share Image
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy. — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
