What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was… — William Rathbone Greg Copy Share Image
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth;… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass.… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it.… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place. — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo? — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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