“Man enjoys the great advantage of having a God endorse the codes he writes; and since man exercises a sovereign authority over woman, it is especially fortunate that this authority …
Publications
Linda Greenhouse
“[I]t’s past time for the rest of us to step back and consider the impact of religion’s current grip on public policy — not only on the right to abortion, …
Dave Matthews
“We owe a faith to the world and to ourselves. We owe a grace and gratitude to things that have brought us here. But I think it’s very ignorant to …
Sarah Polley
“I don’t have faith in anything but my fellow human beings and the world around me. I have strong faith in people, but not beyond people. The world is a …
Butterfly McQueen
“As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.” …
Stephen Hawking
“All that my work has shown is that you don’t have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.” …
Thomas Aikenhead (Died)
“It is a principle innate and co-natural to every man to have an insatiable inclination to the truth, and to seek for it as for hid treasure.” …
Carl Rogers
“Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. … Neither the Bible nor the prophets — neither Freud nor research — neither the …
David Bowie
“I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.” …