Atheist Quotes - Page 13

• Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, Heaven, Moral

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• There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.

  Andy Dick

  Christian, People, Atheism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

  John Ashcroft

  People, Atheism, Matter

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  You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.22, Anchor

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  I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, God, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motivational, Book, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.279, tredition

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• Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Believe, Comeback, Resurrection

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• For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Educational, War, Teaching

  "The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

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• Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

  Plato

  Errors, Understanding, Soul

  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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• If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Christian Inspirational, Religion

  "Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

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• I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sin City, Waking Life, Vomiting

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.82, Delacorte Press

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• I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheism, Want, Three

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• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

  John Adams

  Believe, Fate, Men

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.479, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

  Samuel Butler

  Fighting, Names, Atheism

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4357, Delphi Classics

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• I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Death, Mother, Fear

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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• It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Witty, Humorous

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

  George Orwell

  Catholic, Religion, Atheism

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• For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

  Albert Einstein

  Religion, Atheism, Superstitions

  "Einstein 'God' letter to sell on eBay, with bidding starting at $3M", www.foxnews.com. October 4, 2012.

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

  Studs Terkel

  Talking, Atheism, Agnostic

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

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• The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

  Denis Diderot

  Spiritual, Science, Religion

  "Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws". A letter to Catherine the Great, 1774.

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• People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Hair, People

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.103, Del Rey

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• If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Believe

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.40, St. Martin's Press

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• Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheism

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Voltaire

  God, Religion, Atheism

  Epitres no. 96, "A l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs" (1770) See Ovid 2

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• An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Religion, Atheism, Strive

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1991). “Why I Am an Atheist ; Including, A History of Materialism”, Amer Atheist Press

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