“No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.” WorldMindReasonUniverseBeliefForceTeachingProduceTheoryEvolutionBlindCriticalAccidentsFantasticOrganized Author:Alice Hegan Rice
“The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.” FormReligionIndividualBeliefPrinciplesDemocracySpeechMembersEssentialsCommunicatePropagandaOrganizedCensorshipProhibitionIndividual Rights Author:Thomas I. Emerson
“I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.” ThinkingMeanIdeasBeliefReligiousAtheistOrganizedHostilePositivelyReligious BeliefBad IdeasOrganized Religion Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.” ProblemRealityBeliefRiskProductsCivilizationSolutionsIllusionAbsolutesManagementDeterminedOrganizedApplicationExpertiseRisk Management Author:Voltaire