Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 18

• Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Hate, Elderly, People

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• The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Party, Gun, Atheism

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• If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Atheism, Done, Evidence Of God

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• The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large as the Pentagon's budget, dozens of fatted PACs, and the well-advertised support of the Christian deity.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Christian, Party, Support

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• I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

  George Eliot

  Hypocrisy, Atheism, World

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?

  George Eliot

  Men, Average, Careers

  George Eliot (1883). “The Essays of George Eliot”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Firsts, Immortality

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• A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Moral, Judgment

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• Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Powerful, Growth

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4704, ShandonPress

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• My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Childhood, Sorrow

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• No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.

  Hugh Elliot

  Powerful, Atheism, Purpose

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• Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.

  Amos Elon

  Cities, Giving, Atheism

  Amos Elon (1995). “Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory”, Kodansha Globe

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• Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Other Worlds, Atheism, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.269, University of Georgia Press

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• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Heart, Men

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Miracle, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Rain, Fall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.81, Harvard University Press

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• Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Real, Expression, Issues

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• Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

  Lucretius

  Stars, Light, Atheism

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• Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.

  Susan Ertz

  Animal, Mind, Atheism

  Susan Ertz (1931). “The Story of Julian”, New York D. Appleton 1931.

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• Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Sacrifice, Rights, Atheism

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• Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

  Federico Fellini

  Religious, Real, Men

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• Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Religious, Political, Atheism

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.211, Northwestern University Press

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• We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion, because not only do we tolerate our religious differences, we celebrate them.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Religious, Government, Differences

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.211, Northwestern University Press

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• When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Men, Atheism, Needs

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• It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Christian, Men, Atheism

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