When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America,… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
“since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
"Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, but America's secular and anti-Christian environment left us… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Empathising with the younger children on whom the same confidence trick was being imposed, I embarked on a crusade around the neighbourhood,… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind,… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame… — William Blake Copy Share Image
It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.… — Robert Runcie Copy Share Image
Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical,… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
