Air Quote by Christopher Hitchens

The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they…

— H. L. Mencken

“ Where did secular liberalism go wrong? It has been undone by its own ideas. The first idea is that matters of conscience —…

— Austin Dacey

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

— Benjamin Whichcote

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism.

— Gad Saad

We can't treat issues as taboo because we find them unpleasant.

— Amber Rudd

“We desire more public space for secularism, space that would recognize secularism as a legitimate moral stance. But we simultaneously desire more religious freedom…

— Janet Jakobsen

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

— Kate Burridge

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of…

— William O. Douglas

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

— Bret Stephens

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“If freedom once required a secular critique of religion, it can also require a religious critique of the secular.”

— Harvey Cox

All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.

— Michael J. Knowles