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[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!
The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.
To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.
There is no gospel of atheism. Atheists don't pray at the altar of a Richard Dawkins poster.
Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
A god that does not manifest in reality is indistinguishable from a god that does not exist.
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.
It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.
Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.
Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.
I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.
I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.
The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.
It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.
There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.
The principle applies here, help yourselves and Almighty God will not deny you his assistance.
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.