"Religion poisons everything"
-- Christopher Hitchens

"I would have made a good Pope."
-- Richard Nixon, 1980

"I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d�etat imaginable.
And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka "Christians," and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, January, 2003

On religious wars, "You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
-- Richard Jeni

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Religion is a byproduct 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."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?"
-- Robert Ingersoll