“There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Beware of the man whose God is in the skies”
George Bernard Shaw
“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”
George Santayana
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands”
“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so”
Ernestine Rose
“If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion”
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt