Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The general government is proscribed from the interfering, in any manner whatsoever, in matters respecting religion; and it may be thought to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state. — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
