While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.
—Gene Spafford
Religion is the perfect justification for tyranny, because it doesn't require an ounce of reason or a shred of proof.
—Anonymous
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
—John Burroughs
An Apology to the Devil: It must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case. God has written all the books.
—Samuel Butler
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
—Albert Einstein
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei
Wisdom begins where the fear of God ends.
—André Gide, 1929
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
—Goncourt
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
—Robert A. Heinlein
If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.
—L. Ron Hubbard
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
—Robert G. Ingersoll
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
—Timothy Jones
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
—Stephen King
"Faith" means not wanting to know what is true.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
The Anti-Christ, 1888
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
—Sean O'Casey
Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
—Lord Samuel
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
—Thomas Szasz