Atheism Quotes - Page 14

• Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Atheist

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• I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? I read the King James Bible, as all English writers should. And when I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

  Mark Haddon

  Religious, Atheist, Hymns

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Religious, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press

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• If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  God, Atheist, Religion

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• The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Bible, Block, Biblical

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• A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

  Dion Fortune

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

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• There's probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life.

  Ariane Sherine

  Worry, Enjoy, Stop Worrying

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• I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheist, Long, Agnostic

  Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.

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• A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

  Jose Bergamin

  Motivational, Atheist, Humility

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  The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

  Richard Pryor

  Atheist, People, Bullshit

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• So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Atheist, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strong, Atheist, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.224, Penguin

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• Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mad Cow Disease, Evil, Religion

  "Is Science a Religion?". Humanist, www.skeptical-science.com. January/February 1997.

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• Belief is the death of intelligence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Atheist, Believe

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

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• Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, Laughing, Religion

  Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.

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• Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Thinking, Roots

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.26, Read Books Ltd

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• Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Prayer, Hands

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• Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different... More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history!

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, America, Religion

  "Toss (some of 'em) to the lions". The Tuscaloosa News, September 15, 1993.

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• Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Thinking, Answers

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Men, Would Be

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.96, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil—you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself.

  Dan Barker

  Atheist, Intelligent, Class

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Philosophical, Speak

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• Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Pain, Self

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.152, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheist, Needs, Natural

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• It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheist, Men, Illumination

  "Science and religion need a truce" by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2009.

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