Nonbelievers Quotes
More Nonbelievers Quotes
That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.
hugo black— Writing for the court in Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947) about the consequences of the First Amendments Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause for the separation of church and state.
I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.
indro montanelli— cited in Umberto Veronesi, Non vince la scienza, la Repubblica, 14 novembre 2008
Abu Dharr took an oath that this verse:" These two adversaries who dispute about their Lord" (xxii. 19) was revealed in connection with those who on the Day of Badr came out (of rows to fight against the non-believers and they were) Hamza, 'Ali, 'Ubaida b. Harith (from the side of the Muslims) and 'Utba and Shaiba, both of them the sons of Rabi'a and Walid b. 'Utba (from the side of the non-believers of Mecca).
— Narrated by Abu Dharr
— Sahih Muslim: Book 043, Number 7189.
When nonbelievers die, the angels will deliver to them doom and degradation.
— Original: ?
— The Qur'an (?), Sura 6:93
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing absolutely nothing in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.
christopher hitchens— Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great (2007). See also a video of his reading and an excerpt.
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing absolutely nothing in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.
christopher hitchens— Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007). See also a video of his reading and an excerpt.
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or ' surrender ' as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from non-believers into the bargain.
— Ernest Renan, in Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume, p.129
