Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Maher

One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.

Bill Maher

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

Benjamin Whichcote

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

C. S. Lewis

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Alain de Botton

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

Charles Churchill

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

Blaise Pascal

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Blaise Pascal

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

Bill Hicks

How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!

Baruch Spinoza

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Kerry King

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

Benjamin Franklin

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Benjamin Franklin

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

Austin Farrer

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Billy Connolly

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

Brigham Young

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Edmund Burke

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Edmund Burke

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Edmund Burke

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Art Hoppe

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

Ayn Rand

This god, this one word: I.

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.

C. S. Lewis

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

C. S. Lewis

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

C. S. Lewis

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.