3130 "The extracts from Holy Writ unequivocally assert the right of property in slaves." [Rev. E.D. Simms, professor, Randolph-Macon College]

3713 "Mary had a little lamb, it walked into a pylon. 10,000 volts went up its arse, and turned its wool into nylon."

2982 "The splendour of human life, I feel sure, is greater to those who are not dazzled by the divine radiance." [Bertrand Russell]

2459 "I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity." [Abraham Lincoln]

3679 "Faith-based knowledge is like reqular knowledge, but without the knowledge."

3179 "The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgement seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire . . . Here is the Bible position of woman briefly summed up." [Elizabeth Cady Stanton]

2757 "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." [Nietzsche "The Dawn" (1881)]

3449 "There may be lots of Providence in the world, but no man seems to know just where it can be found." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_, 1911]

3121 "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." [Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)]

203 "Giving government money and power is like giving car keys and whiskey to a teenage boy." -- P.J. O'Rourke

2003 "...and now we're down to our last $37,000." "But just last week you said you were down to your last $50,000, what happened to $13,000 since then?" "Uh...um...I don't know." [Tammy Fae Bakker]

3385 "People who rely most on God rely least on themselves." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_]

1545 "That paragon of humorists, Art Buchwald, in a column entitled 'Hunting Down the Secular Humanists,' writes: 'What makes them so dangerous is that secular Humanists look just like you and me. Some of them could be your best friends without you knowing that they are Humanists. They could come into your house, play with your children, eat your food and even watch football with you on television, and you'd never know they have read Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, and Huckleberry Finn.... No one is safe until Congress sets up an Anti-Secular Humanism Committee to get at the rot. Witnesses have to be called, and they have to name names." Corliss Lamont, The Philosophy of Humanism (Seventh ed., New York: Continuum, 1990), p. xi.

3130 "The extracts from Holy Writ unequivocally assert the right of property in slaves." [Rev. E.D. Simms, professor, Randolph-Macon College]

3063 "A Christian Reconstructionist is a Dominionist. He takes seriously the Bible's commands to the godly to take dominion in the earth. This is the goal of the gospel and the Great Commission. The Christian Reconstructionist believes the earth and all its fullness is the Lord's: that every area dominated by sin must be "reconstructed" in terms of the Bible. This includes, first, the individual; second, the family; third, the church; and fourth, the wider society, including the state." [The Creed of Christian Reconstruction by Rev. Andrew Sandlin]

1433 "You have picked a few squabbles with evolution, but you haven't even suggested for a moment what the mechanism is with which you would replace it." Barry Lynn in "Resolved: That evolutionists should acknowledge creation" _Firing Line_, 4 December 1997, p. 35.

183 "Rid yourself of superstition, kick God to the curb."

1929 "Had I been present at the creation of the world, I would have proposed some improvements." [Alfonso X (Alfonso the Wise; 1226-1284; King of Castile)]

353 "To assume the existence of an unperceivable being ... does not facilitate understanding the orderliness we find in the perceivable world." -- Letter to an Iowa student who asked, What is God? July, 1953; Einstein Archive 59-085

179 "I'm not going to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."