At a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if no one believes it.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.