Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Richard Dawkins

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

Richard Dawkins

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Reba McEntire

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

Sandra Day O'Connor

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

Samuel Johnson

To be of no Church is dangerous.

Wallace Stevens

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

Voltaire

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Voltaire

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Voltaire

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

Voltaire

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

William Ralph Inge

Religion is caught, not taught.

Winston Churchill

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

William Robertson Smith

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

William Hazlitt

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

Werner Heisenberg

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Salman Rushdie

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

Thomas Aquinas

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

Thomas Aquinas

Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religions we call false were once true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

L. Ron Hubbard

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

Laura Riding

To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after - a story that whatever comes shall perfectly continue or confirm: such is the ideal motive of religions.

Samuel Johnson

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Saddam Hussein

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.

Robert Southey

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

Robert Matthews

It is now becoming clear that everything can - and probably did - come from nothing.

Sam Harris

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.