Atheism Quote by James Madison

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.”

— James Madison

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

— James Madison

“Foreigners have been encouraged to settle among you. Industry and virtue have been promoted by mutual emulation and mutual inspection; commerce and the arts…

— James Madison

“In about four months after I went to New Bedford, there came a young man to me, and inquired if I did not wish…

— Frederick Douglass

“There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The Declaration of Sentiments, written in 1833, reads that our principles ‘forbid the doing of evil that good may come, and lead us to…

— Lynn Austin

“referencing that self-imposed simplicity favored by New England Protestants who respect everything about wealth other than its uses.”

— Amor Towles

“...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfolded, that true happiness arose from the friendship…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold business people in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact…

— Steven Pinker

“Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become…

— Anne Brontë

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“That was probably how religion worked. The triumph of loneliness over intelligence. And why not? Why shouldn’t religion be exactly the same as everything…

— Janice Galloway