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Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do not know the exact nature of every component of the universe, the basic principles of physics seem to apply out to the farthest horizon visible to us today.

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Who knows most, doubts most.

Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

Without doubt you are not sane.

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

With regard to the alternatives, we already have them. The cellular and genetic lines of research in humans are the most promising. AIDS is caused by a virus, so it makes sense to study the virus, not chimpanzees. We have learned virtually nothing about AIDS from the chimpanzee. Every major advance in AIDS research ... has come from human studies.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.

Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and I'm wrong, and there's nothing after, I will have had a better life than you, because I do believe there was something. And I couldn't argue with that, even though I wanted to.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

You accept the historical Jesus?

You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.