Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Dan Barker

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

Dan Barker

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

Dan Barker

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

Dan Barker

It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

Arthur Helps

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

Baruch Spinoza

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Art Hoppe

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy ...

Gore Vidal

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

Cher

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

Sydney Smith

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Tyler, The Creator

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

Alexander Woollcott

To all things clergic I am allergic.

Adolf Hitler

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

Adolf Hitler

The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.

Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Adoniram Judson

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Alfred North Whitehead

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Aldous Huxley

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Aldous Huxley

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Albert Einstein

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

Albert Einstein

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Abigail Adams

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

David Gilmour

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.