“I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.” PeopleWantDoeSoulEarthOrderReligiousTeachFateIgnoranceMastersBecomingMassCapableConcernedHungerSatisfiedCivilizedCaptainsFilth Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.” ReligiousLossRaceStepsAtheismPositive AtheismMaturityCivilizedPortionsReligious FaithChildishness Book:Letters of Charles Eliot Norton Source: Letters of Charles Eliot Norton
“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.” FirstsBelieveTwoWarHardAgeNextNationsPeaceInterestReligiousHeardPoliticianBattleNewsFairsStandingIdeologyIslandsCivilizedThis DaySquaresWowMuseDeclarationOld FashionedConferencesFanaticismHostageHard To BelieveNavalNational InterestsNukesCivilized NationsDeclaration Of War Author:William Safire
“It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.” MenGodSeemsReligiousImpossibleWorshipCivilizedContemptTestamentOld TestamentAbhorrence Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll