“Openness about the more shadowy corners of experience was one of the many things, along with psychiatry and religion, that Decca simply didn’t ‘go in for.’ ” …
Day: September 11, 1980
Charles Blow
“People often ask my views on religion. Here goes: Human beings needed something to explain the things they couldn’t understand or contemplate, so they created religion. It’s a way of …
Robert Green Ingersoll
“All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.” “I do not borrow ideas. I have a factory of my own.” “I do not believe …
Steve Wozniak
“I am also atheist or agnostic (I don’t even know the difference). I’ve never been to church and prefer to think for myself.” …
Lyle Stuart
“Do I believe in any god or gods or supernatural destiny? No. I’m an atheist from way back. If you believe there is some god or gods watching over you, more …
Sally Roesch Wagner
“I became a freethinker — like Matilda Joslyn Gage — at the age of 14, reading books that she had given to her son, knowing nothing about Matilda Joslyn Gage.” …
Pauline McLynn
“I was brought up an Irish Catholic at a time when the church and the state were so entwined in Ireland that you just didn’t get a choice. It was …
Mark Fisher
“The persistence of the fantasy that justice is guaranteed — a religious fantasy — wouldn’t have surprised the great thinkers of modernity. Theorists such as Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche and Marx …
John Quincy Adams
“This young fellow, who was possessed of most violent passions, which he with great difficulty can command, and of unbounded ambition, which he conceals perhaps, even to himself, has been …
