(1682 quotes found)
“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
George Carlin
“We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?”
George Bernard Shaw
“One should not go into church if one wants to breathe pure air”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example”
Mark Twain
“The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.”
Abraham Lincoln
“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.”
Albert Einstein
“Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals”
Clarence Darrow
“The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God.”
C.S. Lewis
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