Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the… — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around… It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which… — Mark Noll Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image