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Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

Every one starts out being an atheist.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

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

Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the individual to free himself from the impositions of custom, governmental authority, economic pressures, and cultural inhibitions.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.