834 "This alternating current thing is just a fad. It is much too dangerous for general use." -- Thomas Alva Edison

559 "Illegal Error. You are not allowed to get this error, next time you will be punished."

755 "A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well." -- Petronius

1158 "A humanist is an atheist who cares." -- Dr. Wendell Watters

2853 "It was once proposed that all religions persuasions should be free and their worship publicly exercised. We Catholics have rejected this article as contrary to Roman Catholic canon law." [Pope Pius VII, 1808]

2182 "For narrowness and sectarianism, there is no equal to the Lord Jesus Christ" ["The Southern Baptist Convention and Freemasonry" by James L. Holly, Page 40]

1184 "What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice." -- Ursula K. LeGuinn, The Day before the Revolution

324 "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought - not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

943 "Nothing that would invent a mosquito is worthy of anything but hate."

722 "Freedom begins between the ears."

2720 "Jesus said, 'Love your neighbors.' Well, I do love them. I love to kill them." ["Nasty Nick," Croatian Policeman]

797 "It's rather a shame. Now that the creationists are deprived of their chance of burning people at the stake, their best argument is gone." -- Isaac Asimov, Life and Times, 1979

1012 "I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in." -- Salman Rushdie, on David Frost show

3215 "Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest." [Jimmy Swaggart, TV preacher, self-described pornography addict who paid prostitutes to commit "pornographic acts", hypocrite]

3161 "It needs but to glance over the world and to contemplate the doings of Christians everywhere to be amazed at the ineffectiveness of current theology. Or it needs only to look back over past centuries and the iniquities alike of populace, nobles, kings, and popes to perceive an almost incomprehensible futility of the beliefs everywhere held and perpetually insisted upon." [Herbert Spencer, "Facts and Comments", 1901]

2643 "Clergyman. A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven." [H.L. Mencken]

1156 "God is make believe"

3375 "Most men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_]

1744 "The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke miracles in order to compress the events of the earth's history into the biblical span of a few thousand years; their unwillingness to abandon claims clearly disproved, including the assertion that all fossils are products of Noah's flood; and their reliance upon distortion, misquote, half-quote, and citation out of context to characterize the ideas of their opponents." [Stephen Jay Gould, "The Verdict on Creationism", The Skeptical Inquirer, Winter 87/88, pg. 186]

2020 "Vaccination is a direct violation of the everlasting covenant that God made with Noah after the flood.... Vaccination never saved human life. It does not prevent smallpox." [_The Golden Age_, (predecessor to _Awake!_), Feb. 4, 1931 (Jehovah's Witnesses)]