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• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Change, Business

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Crime, Thousand, Pretext

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.103

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• I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Son, Church

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• The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Book, Biblical

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Discussions”

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• All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Atheism, Fancy

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.

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• The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Death, God

  Quoted in Philipp Frank Einstein: His Life and Times (1947), ch.12, section 5.

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• Liberals hate America, they hate "flag-wavers", they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam (post 9/11). Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, Islamic, Usa

  "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right". Book by Ann Coulter, 2002.

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• However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

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  Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Daughter, Religious, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press

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• Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Atheism, Followers

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood's End”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.159, Library of Alexandria

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• The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

  Walter Savage Landor

  War, Ill Will, Christ

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.533

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• It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

  George Washington

  Religious, Men, Law

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.372

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• Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Dream, Real, Simple

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• To all things clergic I am allergic.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Allergic, All Things

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• Religion is the opiate of the people.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, People, Opiates

  "Marx is dead: don't resuscitate him" by Linsey McGoey, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2008.

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• The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

  Steven Weinberg

  Atheism, Seems, Universe

  The First Three Minutes epilogue (1977)

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• It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process - that this protégé of supernatural intellect couldn't think of a better way to forgive our sins than to have himself tortured to death.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Law, Ideas

  Interview with Chip Rowe, www.playboy.com. August 20, 2012.

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• I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Thinking, Atheism

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.553, Cambridge University Press

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• A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  God, Atheist, People

  "Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals". Book by Robert Pirsig, 1991.

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• The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Christian, Atheist, Mean

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  Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  Haile Selassie

  Procrastination, Should Have, Voice

  1963 Address to a special session of the UN General Assembly, 4 Oct, making him the first head of state to address both that organization and the League of Nations.

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• I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Our Words, Virtue

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.399, Cambridge University Press

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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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• The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;
  Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.
  But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river;
  And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love Life, Rivers, Soul

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