Atheism Quotes - Page 7

• What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Thinking, People

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• The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.397, Cambridge University Press

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• If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

  Justin Brown

  Bible, Religion, Mistaken

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• The only atheism is the denial of truth.

  Arthur Lynch

  Denial

  Arthur Lynch (1929). “The rosy fingers: the building forms of thought and action in the new era”

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• We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.

  Yip Man

  Fighting, Years, Hatred

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• Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another sour sort of fun to ridicule them the morning after, when they discover that their calculations were a little off. But, just as with Marxists, there are some among them who are working hard to "hasten the inevitable," not merely anticipating the End Days with joy in their hearts, but taking political action to bring about the conditions they think are the prerequisites for that occasion.

  Daniel Dennett

  Morning, Fun, Heart

  Daniel C. Dennett (2007). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.294, Penguin UK

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• It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Philosophy, Believe

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "On the Value of Scepticism"

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• Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Hate, Philosophical

  "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics". Book by Ray Comfort, 2009.

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• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Secular Society, Law

  Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.136

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• There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Foxholes, Chaplains, Fronts

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.128, Penguin

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• The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

  Plato

  Men, Political, Good Man

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• A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

  James Kern Feibleman

  Atheist, Believe, Cynical

  Understanding Philosophy ch. 3 (1973)

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• Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

  Plato

  Men, Divine Power, Danger

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Atheist, Two, Brain

  "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes". Essay by Amin Maalouf, 1984.

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• I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought. Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of. I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me, and I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.

  Adam Savage

  Wisdom, Believe, Thinking

  Speech at the Reason Rally, blog.skepticallibertarian.com. March 26, 2012.

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• This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

  Steven Weinberg

  People, Superstitions, Social

  Freethought Today, April 2000.

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• I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

  Isaac

  Atheist, Want, Waste

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• The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Cognitive Dissonance, Siren Song

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.480, Da Capo Press

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• Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.

  George Herbert

  Surprise, Millions

  'Sin: Lord, with what care Thou hast begirt us round!' (1633)

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• I am a daylight atheist.

  Brendan Behan

  Atheist, Daylight

  Quoted in Daniel Farson Sacred Monsters,'Rousting in Dublin' (1988).

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• You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

  Studs Terkel

  Atheist, Talking, Agnostic

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• I don't believe in atheists.

  Neal Boortz

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

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• Fear is the mother of all gods.

  Lucretius

  Mother, Atheist, Religion

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• The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Wickedness

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.7

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• I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.

  Gerald Kersh

  Lonely, Dog, Stars

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