var text_st = new Array ( "Fear believes, courage doubts. Fear falls to the earth and prays, courage stands erect and thinks. Fear is barbarism, courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, devils and ghosts. Fear is religion, courage is science.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll", "Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
-- Albert Einstein", "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", "If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.
-- Robert Ingersoll", "Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in serving human interests.
-- Issac Asimov", "Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
-- Carl Sagan", "The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
-- Ferdinand Magellan", "I tell you this; no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
-- Jim Morrison", "I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the starless night, blown and flared by passion's storm. And yet it is the only light; extinguish that, and nought remains.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll", "Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?
-- Frances Wright", "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
-- Bertrand Russell", "Highly intelligent people are mostly atheists, Not a single member of either house of Congress admits to being an atheist. It just doesn't add up. Either they're stupid, or they're lying. And have they got a motive for lying?
-- Richard Dawkins", "As a collection of self-regulating and continually dividing cells, you are also continuous with your genetic precursors: your parents, their parents and backward through tens of millions of generations -- at which poijnt your ancestors begin looking less like men and women with bad teeth and more like pond scum.
-- Sam Harris", "Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the biolent enmities in the world today
-- Richard Dawkins", "Humanists believe that human beings produced the progressive advance of human society and also the ills that plague it. If the ills are to be alleviated, it is humanity that will have to do the job.
-- Isaac Asimov", "Humanism, in all its simplicity, is the only genuine spirituality.
-- Albert Scweitzer (accepting the Nobel Peace Prize)", "Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.
-- Linus Pauling", "When we speak of equality, of women and men, of Blacks and Whites, of all the world's people, we are talking about humanism.
-- Gloria Steinem", "Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.
-- Isaac Asimov" ); var l = text_st.length; var rnd_no = Math.round((l-1)*Math.random()); var quote_text = text_st[rnd_no]; document.write(quote_text);