“"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813].”
Thomas Jefferson
“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”
Dennis Prager
“In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.”
James Madison
“There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.”
Plato
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
Steven Weinberg
“[...]Man will keep his own history! The tyranny of the gods is ended! We are their puppets no more! The freedom for which we have longed is at hand!”
Vayne Solidor
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
