218 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine

2070 "For centuries men have fought in the most unusual and devious ways to prove the existence of a God. But evidently a God, if there were a God, has been hiding out. He has never been discovered or proved. One would think a God, if any, should have revealed himself unmistakably. Isn't this non-appearance of a God (the non- appearance of a God in the shape of a single bit of evidence for his existence) a pretty, strong, sufficient proof of non-existence?" [E. Haldeman-Julius, "The Meaning Of Atheism"]

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

1472 "The conquering of fear is the beginning of wisdom" [Bertrand Russell]

3651 "auto-correct is my worst enema."

3587 "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword." -- Jesus, Matthew 10:34

1334 "What was God doing (in His Time) for an eternity into His past before He Created the Universe Ex Nihilo? God existed by Himself through an Eternity before the Creation without needing a Universe. Why did He suddenly desire to create the Universe?" Peter A. Angeles, The Problem of God: A Short Introduction (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1986), p. 67.

2760 "Who is more godless than I, that I may rejoice in his teachings?" [Nietzsche]

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

1479 "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones." [Bertrand Russell]

3277 "Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions." [Mark Twain, _The Mysterious Stranger_]

3345 "There is greater argument in one fact than in all the creeds." [Lemuel K. Washburn, _Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays_]

2523 "The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing...." [Martin Luther]

705 "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." --Albert Einstien

3659 "Gun control is HITTING what you aim at."

91 "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." -- Dean Martin

754 "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" -- Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove

800 "FREELOVER? Freethinking Realist Exploring Expressive Liberty, Openness, Verity, Enlightenment, and Rationality (also, pro-love, free from state and church authorities)"

2678 "A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism." [Rev. Donald Morgan, Atheologian]

2973 "I think that in philosophical strictness at the level where one doubts the existence of material objects and holds that the world may have existed for only five minutes, I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do ot think the existence of the Christian God any more probable than the existence of the Gods of Olympus or Valhalla. To take another illustration: nobody can prove that there is not between Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptic orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice. I think the Christian God just as unlikely." [Bertrand Russell]