“The abominable laws respecting [women in the Bible] … are a disgrace to civilization and English literature; and any family which permits such a volume to lie on their parlor-table …
Publications
David Attenborough
“… I’m not so confident to say that I’m an atheist, so I’d prefer to say I’m an agnostic.” …
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“I have found some astonishing answers to my questioning as to God and religion in his book.” …
Robert Browning
“It is a lie — their Priests, their Pope, Their Saints, their … all they fear or hope Are lies, and lies — there! through my door And ceiling, there! …
Johannes Brahms
“Yet we can’t believe in immortality on the other side. The only true immortality lies in one’s children.” …
Madame Restell
“Members of the American Female Moral Reform Society attempted to give her religious tracts when she was in prison, which she rejected, claiming she had enough novels.” …
Margaret Cole
“[Conscientious objection] on religious grounds was for most part treated with respect, particularly if the sect had a respectable parentage. … But non-Christians who objected on the grounds that they …
George Clooney
“I don’t believe in heaven and hell. I don’t know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won’t allow this life — the …
Sigmund Freud
“Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.” …