John Stuart Mill Quotes

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.

I'm not a religious person by any means.

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Our secularism is hard-won, the product of centuries of political, intellectual, and sometimes physical courage. Secularism is the institutionalization of doubt, or more precisely of respect for doubt. It is harder to love doubt than to love freedom. So we are grudging about our secularism, and some of us are a little ashamed of it.

The current climate of religiosity can be stifling to nonbelievers, and it helps now and then to cry foul. For one thing, some of the numbers surrounding the deep religiousness of America, and the rarity of non-belief, should be held to the fire of skepticism

There is little doubt that religious liberty is best exercised within the setting of the secular state.

The French … do not believe in the unity of the Lord of Heaven and Earth … but have abandoned all religion …. They assert … that all men are equal in humanity, and alike in being men; none has any superiority or merit over any other, and every one disposes of his soul and arranges his life. In this vain belief and preposterous opinion, they have erected new principles and set new laws, and established what Satan has whispered to them and destroyed the bases of religion…. With lying books and meretricious falsehoods they address themselves to every group and say, “We belong to you, to your religion, and to your community” …They are united under the banner of Satan.

In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.

When it comes right down to it, no, we're not religious at all.

I'm an atheist. I don't have a religion.

I'm not a religious guy at all.

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

I’m an atheist. The good news about atheists is that we have no mandate to convert anyone. So you’ll never find me on your doorstep on a Saturday morning with a big smile saying ‘Just stopped by to tell you there is no word. I brought along this little blank book I was hoping you could take a look at.’

I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.