Clarence Darrow on God

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure⁠—that is all that agnosticism means.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Mark Twain1835–1910

• Animals

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Gene Roddenberry1921–1991

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.