Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and… — Thomas Helwys Copy Share Image
If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist,… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech… A million voters with IQs below 60 have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party,… — Lloyd Billingsley Copy Share Image
In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image