Atheism Quote by Nicholas Murray Butler

“things that cross all racial, religious, and cultural boundaries—poor”

— Terry Hayes

If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and…

— James Farley

“Well then, he said. What are you doing here? I am not sure. Liberty I suppose. I lived so long under constraints. You wonder…

— Sarah Perry

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

— Ambrose Bierce

Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it…

— Pierre Bayle

“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence, and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

— George Washington

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler

You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

— Antony Flew

If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

— Paul Kurtz