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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.'

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.

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