Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Hitchens

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

Christopher Hitchens

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Christopher Hitchens

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

Christopher Hitchens

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

Christopher Hitchens

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Christopher Fry

Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

George Santayana

Fear first created the gods.

George Santayana

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

George Carlin

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

Ezra Pound

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

Eugenie Scott

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Francis Bacon

For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

Harriet Martineau

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

George Bernard Shaw

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

George Bernard Shaw

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

Galileo Galilei

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

Ridley Scott

If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.

Salman Rushdie

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

Ernst Mayr

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Frank Herbert

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Christopher Hitchens

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

Joseph Joubert

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

Joseph Joubert

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

Joseph Joubert

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.