Quotes Tagged With :freethought

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed....

If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism....

Notwithstanding the fact that infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all....

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement....

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably....

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.....

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than the....

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without....

Says the Cardinal: "Freethought leads to Atheism, to the destruction of social and civil order, and to....