var quotes=new Array() //change the quotes if desired. Add/ delete additional quotes as desired. quotes[0]='"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours"
- Stephen Roberts' quotes[1]='"It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men."
- Carl Sagan' quotes[2]='"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
– Karl Marx' quotes[3]='"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."
– Ferdinand Magellan' quotes[4]='"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
– Susan B. Anthony' quotes[5]='"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."
– Annie Wood Besant' quotes[6]='"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions."
– Blaise Pascal' quotes[7]='"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
– Chapman Cohen' quotes[8]='"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means."
– George Bernard Shaw' quotes[9]='"As people become more intelligent they care less for preaches and more for teachers."
– Robert G. Ingersoll' quotes[10]='"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence."
– Abu Ala Al-Maarri' quotes[11]='"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government."
– Thomas Jefferson' quotes[12]='"It was, of course, a lie...I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
– Albert Einstein' quotes[13]='"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
– Thomas Edison' quotes[14]='"In the absence of fear there is little faith."
– Michael Palin' quotes[15]='"No one can believe in a good God if they have sat at the bedside of a dying child."
- Bertrand Russell' quotes[16]='"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
- Herbert Spencer' quotes[17]='"You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution."
- Richard Dawkins' quotes[18]='"Sometime around my early thirties I stumbled upon evolutionary biology... It was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I would take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. "
- Douglas Adams' quotes[19]='"All opinions are not equal."
- Douglas Adams' quotes[20]='' quotes[21]='"Resist much, obey little."
- Edward Abbey, via Walt Whitman' quotes[22]='"Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all."
- Herbert Spencer' quotes[23]='"In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue."
- Ethan Allen, //Reason, the Only Oracle of Man// 1784' quotes[24]='"Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind."
- Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Smith, 1822.' quotes[25]='"But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
- Thomas Jefferson Notes on Virginia, 1782' quotes[26]='"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
- Thomas Jefferson (Notes on Virginia, 1782)' quotes[27]='"How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason."
- Charles Darwin, //The Descent of Man//' quotes[28]='"I may grow rich by an art that I take not delight in; I may be cured of some disease by remedies that I have not faith in; but I cannot be saved by a religion that I distrust, and by a worship that I abhor. It is in vain for an unbeliever to take up the outward show of another man's profession... No religion, which I believe not to be true, can be either true or profitable unto me. In vain, therefore, do princes compel their subjects to come into their church-communion, under pretense of saving their souls... men cannot be forced to be saved."
- John Locke' quotes[29]='On being asked the cost of his extensive library of controversial books, "These books cost me the governorship of Illinois, and maybe the presidency of the United States as well."
- Robert Green Ingersoll' quotes[30]='When asked about the existance of God: "I have no need for that hypothesis."
- Pierre-Simon Laplace' quotes[31]='"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'"
- Quentin Crisp' quotes[32]='"The world we observe is precisely what we should expect to see if it were, at bottom, without plan or purpose."
- Richard Dawkins' quotes[33]='"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel Boorstin' quotes[34]='"The most practical life is the moral life and ... the moral life is the only road to survival."
- Saul Alinsky, //Rules for Radicals//, p.23.' quotes[35]='"Reality is what doesn't cease to exist when you stop believing in it." - unknown' quotes[36]='"As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion - as it has itself no character of enmity against the law, religion or tranquility of Musselmen (Muslims)." - President John Adams, 1796, The Treaty of Tripoli' quotes[37]='"The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
- Thomas Jefferson' quotes[38]='"Morality is not synonymous with religiosity. Morality should be based on how our actions affect others. Our creeds should not be more important than our deeds."
- Herb Silverman, president of Secular Coalition for America' quotes[39]='"The knowledge that immortality is an illusion...liberates all our energy and time for the realization and extension of the happy potentialities of this good earth."
- Corliss Lamont' quotes[40]='"One step further in the psychology of conviction, of 'faith.' It is now a good while since I first proposed for consideration the question whether convictions are not even more dangerous enemies to truth than lies."
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Human, All-Too-Human," I, aphorism 483' quotes[41]='"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
- Mark Twain' quotes[42]='"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' quotes[43]='"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." - Fulton J. Sheen' quotes[44]='"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion." - Edmond and Jules de Goncourt' quotes[45]='"It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other." - GK Chesterton' quotes[46]='"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition." - Woody Allen' quotes[47]='"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays." - Henny Youngman' quotes[48]='"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche' quotes[49]='"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
- Friedrich Nietzsche' quotes[50]='"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
- Chapman Cohen' quotes[51]='"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' quotes[52]='"I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose."
- Clarence Darrow' quotes[53]='"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." - Delos McKown ' quotes[54]='"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' quotes[55]='"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings."
- Albert Einstein' quotes[56]='"I have not found a better expression than 'religion' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason."
- Albert Einstein' quotes[57]='"Men never do evil so completely as when they do it from religious conviction."
- Blaise Pascal' quotes[58]='"There is no sin except stupidity."- Oscar Wilde' quotes[59]='"Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition."
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair' quotes[60]='"We can never be so certain of any prophecy or the fulfillment of any prophecy; or of any miracle, or the design of any miracle... that two and two are equal to four. Miracles or prophecies might frighten us out of our wits; might scare us to death; might induce us to lie, to say that we believe that two and two make five. But we should not believe it. We should know the contrary." - John Adams, 1813 letter to Thomas Jefferson.' quotes[61]='"Secularism teaches us to be good here and now. I know nothing better than goodness. Secularism teaches us to be just here and now. It is impossible to be juster than just... Secularism has no 'castles in Spain.' It has no glorified fog. It depends on realites, upon demonstrations; and its end and aim is to make this world better every day - to do away with poverty and crime, and to cover the world with happy and contented homes."
- Robert Green Ingersoll, //Works//, vol.8, pp. 393-94.' quotes[62]='"The most formidable weapon against errors of any kind is reason."
- Thomas Paine' quotes[63]='"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural - that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, of the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust."
- Robert Green Ingersoll' quotes[64]='"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russell' quotes[65]='"If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope."
- Steven Batchelor' quotes[66]='"Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty, needs them not." - James Madison' quotes[67]='"I believe it is better to tell the truth than to lie.... And I believe that it is better to know than to be ignorant."
- H.L.Mencken' quotes[68]='"It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely."
- H.L.Mencken' quotes[69]='"Liberty's chief foe is theology."
- Charles Bradlaugh' quotes[70]='"The world becomes full of organisms that have what it takes to become ancestors. That, in a sentence, is Darwinism."
- Richard Dawkins' quotes[71]='"A 1999 poll revealed that 48% of US citizens would not vote for an atheist presidential candidate. 37% would not vote for a homosexual, 17% would not support a Mormon and 7% would not vote for a woman.' quotes[72]='"Humanity's first sin was faith; the first virtue was doubt."' quotes[73]='"Why be born again, when you can just grow up?"' quotes[74]='"Any belief worth having must survive doubt."' quotes[75]='"When a man asked Jesus how he could enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told him to sell everything he owned and follow him. How come nobody does this today?"' quotes[76]='"Does the Lord really work in mysterious ways, or does he just not work at all?"' quotes[77]='"It will be generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature and affect to despise it are among its worst and least pleasant examples."' quotes[78]='"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
- Thomas Edison' quotes[79]='"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination."
- Mark Twain' quotes[80]='"The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies." -Mark Twain' quotes[81]='"An infinite reward or punishment for a finite activity is infinitely unfair."' quotes[82]='"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man."
- Thomas Jefferson, 1800' quotes[83]='"Surgeon General's Warning: Quitting Religion Now Greatly Increases the Chances of World Peace."' quotes[84]='"FAITH - An attitude fostered by individuals in high places in order to ensure the subservience of those in their charge."' quotes[85]='"How is prayer different from magic? Both can be attempts to skirt the laws of nature for personal benefit and neither work."' quotes[86]='"Where there are humans you'll find flies, and Buddhas." - Issa' quotes[87]='"nullifidian n. a. (Person) having no religious faith or belief"' quotes[88]='"freethinker n. A person who forms opinions about religion on the basis of reason, independently of tradition, authority, or established belief."' quotes[89]='"A society without religion is like a crazed psychopath without a loaded .45"' quotes[90]='"Fundamentalism means never having to say I'm wrong."' quotes[91]='"Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich."' quotes[92]='"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."' quotes[93]='"If God is necessary to distinguish between good and evil, how can atheists tell apart the villains and heroes when they see a movie?"' quotes[94]='"As long as man can recognize the difference between being treated rightly and wrongly, he will know the difference between right and wrong."' quotes[95]='"Two hands working do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."' quotes[96]='"Why is it that people who want to share their religious beliefs with you never seem to want you to reciprocate and share your beliefs with them?"' quotes[97]='"It's your god. They're your rules. *You* go to hell."' quotes[98]='"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' The wise man says it to the World."' quotes[99]='"Faith is deciding to allow yourself to believe something your intellect would otherwise cause you to reject - otherwise there's no need for faith."' quotes[100]='"Theology: The study of elaborate verbal disguises for non-ideas."' quotes[101]='"The mind of the fundamentalist is like the pupil of the eye: the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract."' quotes[102]='"Belief in heaven is very difficult without a greedy desire for it: All scams need a hook."' quotes[103]='"The scientist yearns to find and eventually know the truth; the religious man wants the truth to fit his preconceived mold. So, as a result, the scientist alters his perception to conform to the facts; The religious man tries to change the facts to conform to his beliefs."' quotes[104]='"All Gods were immortal."' quotes[105]='"If the Bible proves that God exists then comic books prove the existence of Superman."' quotes[106]='"A Humanist or an Atheist can't tell you to go to hell but a Christian can and will."' quotes[107]='"Out of convicted rapists, 57% admitted to reading pornography. 95% admitted to reading the Bible."' quotes[108]='"Religion is to rationality as bullshit is to horsepower."' quotes[109]='"Several thousand years ago, a small tribe of ignorant near-savages wrote various collections of myths, wild tales, lies, and gibberish. Over the centuries, these stories were embroidered, garbled, mutilated, and torn into small pieces that were then repeatedly shuffled. Finally, this material was badly translated into several languages successively. The resultant text, creationists feel, is the best guide to this complex and technical subject."' quotes[110]='"The last time we mixed religion and government, people were burned at the stake."' quotes[111]='"Freedom is the Distance Between Church and State."' quotes[112]='"When The Radical Right Takes Over, We'll All Live In Iran."' quotes[113]='"Want to know what happens after death? Go look at some dead things."' quotes[114]='"A mystic is someone who wants to understand the universe, but is too lazy to study physics."' quotes[115]='"Re: God... 1) The emperor has no clothes. 2) There is no emperor."' quotes[116]='"There are none more ignorant and useless than they that seek answers on their knees, with their eyes closed."' quotes[117]='"Christianity: Safer than a lobotomy, but just as effective."' quotes[118]='"A metaphysician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there, and a theologian is one who finds the cat."' quotes[119]='"Cogito, ergo non credo."' var whichquote=Math.floor(Math.random()*(quotes.length)) document.write(quotes[whichquote])