He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.”
- William Drummond
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
- Epicurus
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
- Bertrand Russell
You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep-seated need to believe.”
- Carl Sagan
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
- Seneca the Younger
Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.”
- Blaise Pascal
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
- George Bernard Shaw
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”
- Gene Roddenberry
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
- Steven Weinberg
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
- H. L. Mencken
So you really think that God would plant a bunch of bones in the earth to test your faith? Either you’re in denial or God has some serious self-esteem issues.”
- Coral Yoshi
It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”
- Mark Twain
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.”
- Mark Twain
We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don’t stand up to experimentation, Buddha’s own words must be rejected.”
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, 1988
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.”
- George Bernard Shaw
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”
- Albert Einstein
