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How many prison years in the years since Christ!

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

How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!

Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts.

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

I am a daylight atheist.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.

I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one preacher well. I must therefore be contented to be an Unitarian by myself, although I know there are many around me who would become so, if once they could hear the questions fairly stated.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? I read the King James Bible, as all English writers should. And when I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm not convinced of these - they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.

I am nothing and should be everything.

I am high in the sky, and still I do not see the face of god.

I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e., living without God, if consistently carried through, will have made life plainly unlivable within the limits of reason or even common sense

I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

I am without religious feeling.

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright.

I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe that the observations about the orderliness of the physical universe, and the apparently exceptional fine-tuning of the conditions of the universe for the development of life suggest that an intelligent Creator is responsible.