Steven Weinberg

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to …

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Pete Seeger

“I leaf through [the bible] quite often — if only to shake my head in disgust. I quote Leviticus to people who think that every word in the Bible is …

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Satyajit Ray

INTERVIEWER: “Do you believe in God?” RAY: “No. I don’t believe in religion either. At least not in organized religion. Nor have I felt the necessity for any personal religion.” …

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Yoram Kaniuk

“[Israel] established a state out of religion rather than the nation we almost became. Along the way we did not stop in the hallway of civilization, and religion attached itself …

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Catherine the Great

“As Empress, Catherine endeavoured to enforce the enlightened humanitarian views of the great French Rationalists, with whom she was in complete sympathy. Her reforms, in regard to education, justice, sanitation, …

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