Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

Richard P. Feynman

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

Richard Dawkins

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

Richard Dawkins

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

Richard Dawkins

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

Thomas Sowell

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

Robert Anton Wilson

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Samuel Johnson

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

William Howard Taft

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

Walter Martin

Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

Voltaire

What can I hope when all is right?

Wilhelm Stekel

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

Walter F. Mondale

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

William S. Burroughs

The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

William S. Burroughs

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.

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.

Josiah Warren

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

Joss Whedon

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Lenny Bruce

Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

Lenny Bruce

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

Thomas Aquinas

What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.

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.

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.

Robert M. Pirsig

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

Ronald Knox

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

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.