3499 "Remember, the German people are the chosen of God. On me the German Emperor, the spirit of God has descended. I am His sword, His weapon, and His vice-regent." [Kaiser Wilhelm II, 4 August 1914]

2395 "In the brain of every religious person there is a god shaped vacuum." [Jeremy Konopka on alt.atheism]

2652 "Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the FIRST time." [Dennis Miller]

3227 "No one would have remembered the good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well." [Margaret Thatcher]

2589 "Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it." [Edgar Lee Masters 1869-1950]

363 "My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment." -- Letter to M. Berkowitz, October 25, 1950; Einstein Archive 59-21

3118 "They say one day He'll liquidate His holdings up on high, I say it's all speculation. [Michelle Shocked "God is a Real Estate Developer"]

3719 "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

347 "My country, right or wrong; to be defended when right and righted when wrong." - Thomas Jefferson

1582 "Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists---especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course, this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion. A rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic God." Taner Edis, Is Anybody Out There?

632 "religion is a socio-political institution for the control of people's thoughts, lives, and actions; based on ancient myths and superstitions perpetrated through generations of subtle yet pervasive brainwashing."

2324 "One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests." [Robert G. Ingersoll, Speech, New York City, 1 May 1881]

2814 "No doubt a sizeable majority of Americans believe in the concept of a Creator or, at least, are not opposed to the concept and see nothing wrong with teaching school children about the idea.

The application and content of First Amendment principles are not determined by public opinion polls or by a majority vote. Whether the proponents of Act 590 constitute the majority or the minority is quite irrelevant under a constitutional system of government.

No group, no matter how large or small, may use the organs of government, of which the public schools are the most conspicuous and influential, to foist its religious beliefs on others." [U.S. District Court Judge William R. Overton, overturning Arkansas Act 590, requiring public schools to teach Creation Science]

2993 "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty." [Bertrand Russell, "Unpopular Essays"]

2896 "...full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind, that, in other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept." [Wilhelm Reich]

3135 "If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet." [Isaac Bashevis Singer]

2218 A fools prayer:

Dear Lord, Please help us not to be blasphemers.In Jesus name we pray....

[Bill Huston]

806 "I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

3192 "For those of us who have not believed, it is not expected to be very jolly." [David Stoll, "Fishers of Men or Founders of Empire?"]

581 "I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring" -- William Archer (1856-1924), _Theology and War_