Epictetus
Only the educated are free.

Rodney D. Hinds
If god wanted women to remain subservient to man, he shouldn’t have created them to be so beautiful, smart, tender and lovable.

John F. Kennedy
He described his belief "in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote."

Daniel Dennett
Telling pious lies to trusting children is a form of abuse, plain and simple.  If quacks and bunco artists can be convicted of fraud for selling worthless cures, why not clergy for making their living off unsupported claims of miracle cures and the efficacy of prayer?

Edward Abbey
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.


Denis Diderot
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.


Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.


Voltaire
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.


Emmett F. Fields
The Atheist Bible, it could be said, has but one word: 'Think.'


Anotole France
If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.


Mark Twain
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.


Mark Twain
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.


Sir Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.


Jomo Kenyetta
When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.


Robert G. Ingersoll
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.


Dennis Miller
Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.


Chris Morris
We've had this book [the bible] analyzed and it reads like the ramblings of a drugged horse.


Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
Religiously justified violence is first and foremost a problem of 'sacred' texts and not a problem of misinterpretation of texts.


David Mills
Science illiteracy is so ubiquitous, and religious dogma so firmly ingrained, that legions cannot read a well-written science book without hallucinating the supernatural on every page.




Thomas Paine

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing.

Dorion Sagan (son of Carl Sagan)
The truth may set you free but societies require obedience, hierarchy and cohesion - ergo the paradox that the wheels of survival, especially during times of duress, are greased more readily by easy lies than hard truths.

Bertrand Russell
It's good to have an open mind, but not so open that our brains fall out.


Victor Stenger
Science flies you to the moon.  Religion flies you into buildings.

Lin Yutang
All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell


Michelde Mantaigne
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen


James Madison
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.


John Adams
God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.


Abraham Lincoln The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.


Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.


Mark Twain
Faith is believing something you know ain't true.


Doug McLeod
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.


George Bernard Shaw
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.


Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.


Woody Allen
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.


George Carlin
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.


Charles Darwin
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.


Albert Einstein
Science with religion is lame ; religion without science is blind. Science without religion is useful, religion with science is useless.


Catherine Fahringer
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

Christopher Hitchens What can be asserted without proof can also be dismissed without proof.