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“If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby.” (Anonymous)

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.” (Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate)

“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” (Douglas Adams)

“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” (Albert Einstein)

“Boys like to win at games. Boys like to think they’re smarter than you. Boys don’t respect a girl who gives in to them, so you go around practicing virginal behavior: being docile, being quiet, a gracious loser. But that’s only till you get a man. Then you must spend all your time tryng to change him from someone who’d want to live with a stupid loser with no sex drive.” (Roseanne Barr)

“I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.” (Aristotle)

“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.” (Jon Stewart)

“Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.”(Voltaire)

“Religious belief of all kinds shares the same intellectual respectability, evidential base, and rationality as belief in the existence of fairies.” (A. C. Grayling)

“There are many kinds of dogmatism. There’s nationalism, there’s tribalism, there’s racism, there’s chauvinism. And there’s religion. Religion is the only sphere of discourse where dogma is actually a good word, where it is considered ennobling to believe something strongly based on faith.” (Sam Harris)