Agnostic Quotes - Page 11

• I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Talking, Atmosphere

  "Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment" by Charles Krauthammer, jewishworldreview.com. May 30, 2008.

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• No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Blood, Kingdoms

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• Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Conservative, Students, Evolution

  "America’s Darwin Problem" by Kenneth R. Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their mortality and to convince them that the afterlife itself is under the personal management of the particular gods they are promoting. The self-protective urges of their worshippers will do the rest.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Self, Afterlife

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice.

  Henry M. Morris

  Christian, Practice, Roots

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• Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money

  Steven Morrissey

  Church, Body, Wrecks

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• Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

  Johann Most

  Religious, Pests, Disease

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• The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man after his own image, and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.

  Johann Most

  Christian, Men, Order

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• A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, People, Police

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• Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Roots, People

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• I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer.

  Roger Ebert

  Atheist, Night, Would Be

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• An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Mind, Would Be, States

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11757, Delphi Classics

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• Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

  Alexander Graham Bell

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• It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

  Jack Kornfield

  Believe, Knowing, Appreciate

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• Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Trying, Sound, Would Be

  "Genius Talk: Conversations With Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries". Book by Denis Brian, August 1, 1995.

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• I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

  Mike Dirnt

  Party, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Latin, Greek, Ignorant

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• Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Peace, Truth

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.196, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.

  Coventry Patmore

  Care, Ancient, Modern

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a highly valuable, not to say essential, social institution... I am convinced that the moral regeneration and repair of a frayed social fabric that this country so badly needs will not take place unless more people take their religion seriously.

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

  Karl Marx

  Atheist, Philosophical, People

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• I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

  George R. R. Martin

  Atheist, Catholic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Atheist, People, Catholic

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Atheist, Ignorance, Thinking

  The Jew of Malta prologue (ca. 1592)

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