Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Bertrand Russell

The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.

Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Bertrand Russell

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

Bertrand Russell

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

Benjamin Disraeli

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

Benjamin Disraeli

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Elbert Hubbard

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion

Elbert Hubbard

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Elbert Hubbard

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

There was no talk of anything like that (religious overtones) ? not even a veiled threat,

Gertrude Stein

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Havelock Ellis

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

Havelock Ellis

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Harry Dean Stanton

I'm not really into religion.

Herman Melville

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Henry David Thoreau

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

Jeremy Bentham

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Florence Nightingale

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

Henny Youngman

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

Cat Stevens

They have hijacked my religion.

Immanuel Kant

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

George Sand

No religion can be built on force.

Christopher Hitchens

Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.

Christopher Hitchens

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

Christopher Hitchens

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Frank Pavone

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

Francois Rabelais

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.