(1733 quotes found)
“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
“Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple”
Jimmy Buffett
“The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not bet”
Mark Twain
“That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves;”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason”
Voltaire
“Lighthouses are more helpful than churches”
Benjamin Franklin
“I do my best thinking by the ocean. As much as I enjoy church service, I've always felt closer to God by the sea.”
Roma Downey
“The loathsome combination of Church and State”
Thomas Jefferson
“People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy”
Mikhail Bakunin
