Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 12

• But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the bye, will you, or can you tell me, my dear Cunningham, why a religioso turn of mind has always a tendency to narrow and illiberalise the heart?

  Robert Burns

  Religious, Heart, Bye

  Robert Burns, Alan Bold (1993). “Rhymer Rab: an anthology of poems and prose”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hero, Thinking, Blow

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

  William S. Burroughs

  Islam, Atheism, Lines

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose. And I'll take that a step further. You can be a patriot if you don't believe in the Almighty. You can honor your country and be as patriotic as your neighbor.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Jobs, Believe

  4 Copy quote

• Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.

  George W. Bush

  Long, Church, Atheism

  4 Copy quote

• Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Different, Certificates

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.77, Library of Alexandria

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never king dropped out of the clouds.

  John Selden

  Kings, Clouds, Atheism

  John Selden, Samuel Weller Singer, Edward FitzGerald (1860). “Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes”, p.219

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Agree Upon, Agree

  Letter to John Adams, January 11, 1817.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Views, Speech

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Atheism: collected essays, 1943-1949”, Arno Pr

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Adoption, Abortion, Atheism

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

  John Dewey

  Men, Medicine, Psychology

  The Public and Its Problems Ch. 5

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

  Max Born

  Civilization, Atheism, Tradition

  1968 My Life and Views.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

  Frank Zappa

  Race, Tin Cans, Guy

  Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto, May 1969.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Atheism, Equal

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.522, VM eBooks

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.

  Phil Ochs

  Lying, Laughing, Atheism

  Song: When I'm Gone, Album: Phil Ochs in Concert

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Should Have, Honor, Special

  Charles Bradlaugh (1890). “Speeches”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -- no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sacrifice, Feet, Long

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

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Writing, Names

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

  George Santayana

  Believe, People, World

  7 Copy quote

• Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been “authorized by the Bible” and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Christian, Country, Atheism

  12 Copy quote

• The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

  Douglas Adams

  Airports, People, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Christian, Atheism, Spirit

  John Quincy Adams (1951). “Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

  Jane Addams

  Father, Writing, Temptation

  7 Copy quote

• The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Religious, Light, Hands

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Men, Important

  4 Copy quote