Atheism Quotes - Page 33

• The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

  Harold Lasswell

  Emotional, Matter, Essentials

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• "Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To respond through touch, sight, smell, and sound to all things in nature - both organic and inorganic-to colors, shapes, and textures - to not only look at a blade of grass but to really see a blade of grass. These things, to me, are what life and living are all about. I would call it "Humanism."

  Jacob Lawrence

  Thinking, Color, Smell

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• Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

  Lucretius

  Light, Darkness, Positive Atheism

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• Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Believe, Punishment, Soul

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• What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Believe, Ifs, I Believe

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• Do I believe? God only knows.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Believe, Knows, I Believe

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• Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Enlightening, Positive Atheism

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• I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Suicide, Religious

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• To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Positive Atheism, Humans

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• Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.

  Lucretius

  Rocks, Air, Frozen

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• Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Darkness, Burning, Stakes

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• You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Song, Play, Oppression

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• When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to question; it was impious to examine; it was impious to discriminate. On the other hand, it was visibly instinct with the supernatural. Miracles of every order and degree of magnitude were flashing forth incessantly from all its parts.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Hands, Order, Miracle

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.198

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• The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Civilization, Suffering

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• When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated; and, in the course of a few years, restrictive laws were enacted, both against the Jews and against the heretics.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Years, Law, Church

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.29

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• All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Miracle, Lasts, Proportion

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.158

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• Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Father, Writing, Church

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• Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Two, Long, People

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• What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Prayer, Decree, Positive Atheism

  "The World's Sages, Thinkers and Reformers". Book by D. M. Bennett, 1876.

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• Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

  Paul Kurtz

  Ignorance, Caring, Keys

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Mind, Wish, Elysium

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1921.

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• Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.

  Paul Kurtz

  Moral Development, Creative, Excellence

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• Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

  James Russell Lowell

  Order, Police, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.

  Lucretius

  Prayer, Wind, Sea

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• Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.

  Lucretius

  Blow, Order, Should Have

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