Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 15

• Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

  Lenny Bruce

  Atheism, Three, Christ

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• Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

  Lenny Bruce

  Atheism, Superstitions, Yeah

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• You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.

  Tommy Smothers

  Dirty, Political, Atheism

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• Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.

  George Pataki

  War, Fighting, Freedom Of Speech

  "Lenny Bruce Posthumously Pardoned" by wenn.com, December 24, 2003.

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• There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.

  Giordano Bruno

  Space, Atheism, Body

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

  Giordano Bruno

  Space, Atheism, Chance

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.

  Giordano Bruno

  Moving, Mean, Circles

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

  Giordano Bruno

  Atheism, Argument, Accepting

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.

  James Bryce

  Atheism, Citizens, Matter

  James Bryce “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the internal troubles that have vexed European States... have arisen from theological differences or from the rival claims of Church and State. This whole vast chapter of debate and strife has remained virtually unopened in the United States. There is no Established Church. All religious bodies are equal before the law, and unrecognized by the law, except as voluntary associations of private citizens.

  James Bryce

  Religious, War, Europe

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• About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as far as possible, to change something in the other, but also to let me be changed by him. At any event, I had no resistance, I put no resistance to it. I already began as a young man. I felt I have not the right to want to change another if I am not open to be changed by him as far as it is legitimate.

  Martin Buber

  Men, People, Atheism

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• When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Atheism, Opinion

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• I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

  Martin Buber

  Thinking, Giving, Atheism

  Martin Buber, Judith Buber Agassi (1999). “Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy: Essays, Letters, and Dialogue”, p.261, Syracuse University Press

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• Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.

  Ed Buckner

  Religious, Rights, People

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• The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious and therefore are not that important - something I would think would offend Christians who think it should stay because it is religious and does matter. Too many Christians appear to be desperate to shore up their failing confidence in their own religious beliefs by having the government officially endorse those beliefs.

  Ed Buckner

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

  Ed Buckner

  Religious, Ideas, Government

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• That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some of the most beautiful passages in the apostolic writings are quotations from Pagan authors, is well known to every scholar... To assert that Christianity communicated to man moral truths previously unknown, argues on the part of the asserted either gross ignorance or wilful fraud.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Writing

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.166

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• The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which to their own profession they, by a certain instinct, seem always to have perceived.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Country, Enemy, Atheism

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1872). “The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle”, p.363

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• Thank God, I am still an atheist.

  Luis Bunuel

  Atheist, Thank God, Atheism

  Quoted in Le Monde, 16 Dec. 1959

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• Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

  Luther Burbank

  Essence, Atheism, Fever

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• As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.

  Luther Burbank

  Perfect, Common Sense, Feelings

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• I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.

  Luther Burbank

  Weed, Flower, Pride

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• We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

  Edmund Burke

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 30

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• An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.

  James Burnham

  Attitude, Thinking, Experience

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• On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!

  Robert Burns

  Jealous, Heaven, Atheism

  Robert Burns (1848). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.256

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