Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Green Ingersoll

All religion is slavery.

Robert Green Ingersoll

We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

Robert Green Ingersoll

The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?

Robert Green Ingersoll

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

Rowan Atkinson

I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience.

William Howard Taft

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

Vladimir Lenin

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

Vladimir Lenin

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Salman Rushdie

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Stephen Colbert

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

Thomas B. Macaulay

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

Thomas Hobbes

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

Thomas Hobbes

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

Thomas A. Edison

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Ronald Knox

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

Vanessa Paradis

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

Vanna Bonta

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Soren Kierkegaard

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

Marcus Aurelius

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

Robert A. Heinlein

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

Raymond Aron

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

Thomas Carlyle

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not make gods in your own images.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

There are parodies of non-existent things.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.