The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We have the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should tolerate even them whenever we can do so without running a… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if… — Daniel Coit Gilman Copy Share Image
Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family,… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence… Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states,… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
