“If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach …
Day: April 24, 1980
Robert Louis Heilbroner
What sort of religion will transform capitalism? A “statist” religion, says Heilbroner, that will elevate mankind’s “collective and communal destiny” and absolutely subordinate private interests to public requirements. …
Joel Barlow
“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the …
Harry Houdini
“I have made compacts with fourteen different persons that whichever of us died first would communicate with the other if it were possible, but I have never received a word.” …
David Suzuki
“As an atheist, Suzuki declares, he has no illusions about life and death, adding that the individual is insignificant in cosmic terms. Human beings must come to terms with the …
Tig Notaro
“My biggest problem with people who talk about God and prayers is how confident they are about how it all works out until it doesn’t work out. This kind of …
Joan Konner
“I see myself as a journalist if anything. I don’t call myself an agnostic but I do recognize that I will never know.” …
Grant Allen
“[T]he vast mass of existing gods or divine persons, when we come to analyze them, do actually turn out to be dead and deified human beings. … I believe that …
George Augustus Moore
“The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.” …
