Defective Quote by Christopher Hitchens

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

— Frances Harper

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like…

— Ahad Ha'am

“Indictment for blasphemy: That ... the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of…

— Thomas Aikenhead

“One of my favorite arguments against Jesus was how do we know He really existed? How do we know that accounts of Jesus aren’t…

— Tom Skinner

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

— Anton Chekhov

“I can't see why anybody — unless he was a child, or an angel, or a lucky simpleton like the pilgrim — would even…

— J. D. Salinger

“It's good to have these stories in our holy books, to remind us that they were written by humans. Filthy-minded, morally ambiguous humans.”

— Suzanne Morrison

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

— Plato

I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were…

— George Eliot

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

— Deepak Chopra

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

— Anonymous