"I do not see why the schoolmaster should……" — Henry David Thoreau
"I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster."
More Atheist Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode… — Aristotle
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the… — Douglas Adams
- Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — John Adams
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism… — Joseph Addison
- No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
- Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
- I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can… — Jack Black
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a… — Tony Blair