Atheist Quotes - Page 27

• The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Tragedy, World, Walks

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• I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.

  Francis Joseph Sheed

  Debate

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• The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee.

  Mark Hart

  Coffee, Thinking, Astrology

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• He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Justice, Example, Divine

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• The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Believe, Long

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• God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.

  Robert Burns

  Twenties, Would Be, Clean

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1847). “Works: With an Account of His Life and Criticism on His Writings, to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.131

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• Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something? I go on a big crusade about it and write a bunch of books on the subject. No, wait, that sounds more like what someone with a mental disorder would do. That's one of the crazy things about lots of atheists: They're whole movement is supposed to be about being logical and reasonable, yet they tend to rail against religion is a very mindless way that doesn't seem to serve any more purpose than a tantrum. Perhaps I just don't understand their strong faith in not having faith.

  Frank J. Fleming

  Strong, Crazy, Book

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• So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's not true. Now, you can decide to invent a new America in which you shouldn't say "one nation under God" as part of the pledge because, after all, you will offend three atheists. But that's not the America you inherited. That's a different country. And I think it's a weaker country and I think it's a country that has no roots in terms of where its rights come from.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Thinking, America

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• An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  What Matters, Belief, Ethical

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• I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Believe, Rights, Humans

  "Taslima Nasrin: “A Writer On Trial”". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, atheistfoundation.org.au. July 1995.

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• If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Fall, Mean

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• The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

  Dan Barker

  Christian, Religion, Notion

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

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• Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Independent, Men, Practice

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• Actually, I don't like Atheists very much - at least most of them ~ because they are not motivated to move into the community and attempt to correct the injustices which are everywhere apparent against them.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Moving, Community, Atheism

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• Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.

  Pat Buchanan

  Religion, Criminals, Minorities

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• According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.

  Pete Seeger

  Eye, Thinking, Listening

  "Pete Seeger's Session". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. August 2006.

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• I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Reading, Atheism, Reading The Bible

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• I would not say that ethical behavior is not possible for the atheist or agnostic. It is. A couple of pretty good examples are Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, I will have to say that if we take the human lot as a whole, these two men must be seen as exceptions.

  Huston Smith

  Couple, Men, Agnostic

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• "Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

  Jim Herrick

  Mean, Atheism, Knowledge Of God

  Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”

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• Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Atheism, Pills, Chewing

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• Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

  Paul Krassner

  Believe, Intimate Relationships, Atheism

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• The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Atheism, Spirit, Positive Atheism

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• Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

  Barbara Smoker

  Atheism, Alternatives, Answers

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• Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.

  Linus Torvalds

  Religious, Appreciation, Thinking

  Interview with Marjorie Richardson, www.linuxjournal.com. November 1, 1999.

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• I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, White, People

  "The Transcendence Of Hip Hop - An Interview With Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

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