Atheism Quotes - Page 17

• Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Religion, God Is Not Great

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.253, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Money, Atheist

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• The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Motivational, Death, Faith

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• Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

  Tom Stoppard

  Christian, Atheist, Reality

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.55, St. Martin's Press

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• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

  John Adams

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”

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• All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

  Matthew Arnold

  Religious, Atheist, Biblical

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• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Faith, Witty

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows as a poisonous stem. If we remove fundamentalism and keep religion, then one day or another fundamentalism will grow again. I need to say that because some liberals always defend Islam and blame fundamentalists for creating problems. But Islam itself oppresses women. Islam itself doesn't permit democracy and it violates human rights.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Believe, Islamic, Rights

  Interview with Matt Cherry and Warren Allen Smith, www.secularhumanism.org. December 31, 1998.

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  Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Humorous, Hypocrite

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought, and he therefore cannot carry his own reflection to any logical conclusion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Men, Comforting

  "Human Society in Ethics and Politics".

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• There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

  Simone Weil

  Atheist, Two, Purification

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.114, Psychology Press

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• Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Atheist, Law, Would Be

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Atheist, Believe, Doe

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part IV, Chapter 7, p. 626, 1869.

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• Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

  Isaac Newton

  Professors, Mankind, Great Scientist

  "Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings".

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• My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.

  William O. Douglas

  Atheist, Men, Soul

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• If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

  Art Hoppe

  God, Humorous, Profound

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• A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Atheist

  "Le catéchisme social" by Honore de Balzac, Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, (p. 137), 1933.

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• There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

  Plato

  Plato, People, Stubborn

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• We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

  William Temple

  Love, Atheist, Names

  William Temple (1965). “Daily readings”

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• There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Men, People

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which they can influence, with more importunity of solicitation to adopt their opinions. In proportion as they doubt the truth of their own doctrines, they are desirous to gain the attestation of another understanding: and industriously labour to win a proselyte, and eagerly catch at the slightest pretense to dignify their sect with a distinguished name.

  Samuel Johnson

  Atheist, Winning, Names

  Samuel Johnson (1819). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.40

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• Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  Order, Support, Taught

  Freethought Today (unidentified article/page), April 2000.

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