Windsor Humanist Society - Our Library Collection

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall."
Thomas Paine

"There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
Epicurus

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
Richard Dawkins

"There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the dark ages."
Ruth Hermence Green

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
Albert Einstein

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."
Christopher Hitchens

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
Isaac Asimov

"With respect to many, if not most, questions, secular humanism does not point in any particular direction. Instead, it opens up our horizaons so we can assume responsitility for shaping our lives through our personal choices."
Ronald A. Lindsay

"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.'"
Stephen Jay Gould