T Withani

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
-Albert Einstein

"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."
-Ferdinand Magellan

"I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma"
-Abraham Lincoln

"All thinking men are atheists."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Religion is a by product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?"
-Arthur C Clarke

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter ... than you and I; and all religion ... is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry."
-Edgar Allen Poe

"Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity."
-Thomas Paine