A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision.

Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another.

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

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