You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking. — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card… — Morris Sullivan Copy Share Image
No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men,… — Zeno of Citium Copy Share Image
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny… An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught!… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well… — William Chillingworth Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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