Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are… — Peter Hoagland Copy Share Image
I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
If I have to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love because the first person that… — Shamcey Supsup Copy Share Image
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
“The search for comfort at the expense of truth has never been a motive for religious belief, since all creeds are chock-full… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
I think one of the great strengths of Americans United is that it has such diversity. That it has not only people… — Barry W. Lynn Copy Share Image
“How can men who disagree about what the world is for agree about any of the minutiae of daily conduct? The statement… — Smith III, Ted J Copy Share Image
If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
According to my religious belief, I'm sorry if you feel like I'm pushing this on you - my religious belief is that… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time… — John Ankerberg Copy Share Image
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither… — William J. Brennan 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
We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
“A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image