Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

Charles Stross

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

Charles Stross

I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.

Alan Watts

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

Alan Alda

I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?

Dave Foley

Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.

David Cross

I'd like to think that I'm not just making the point that I'm an atheist over and over, but that I explore different facets of religion. There's no way of bringing up religion without sounding like an asshole.

David Cross

I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.

Dave Barry

I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known.

Charles Caleb Colton

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

Charles Spurgeon

Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

C. Wright Mills

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.

Kurt Vonnegut

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

August Bebel

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.

Charles Bradlaugh

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

Charles Bradlaugh

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Charles Bradlaugh

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

Mitch Lockwood

Make sure that the inside spread of the buck's rack is wider than the tips of the ears. To be safe, look for some daylight between the inside of the main beams and the tips of his ears.

John Eldridge

The population drives the other services in the jail. It just overtaxes the whole system. It overtaxes the medical services. It overtaxes things as simple as getting people out to see the daylight a time or two the week.

Rod Coleman

Fred looked pretty good tonight. He wasn't hesitating, he saw daylight and just took off for it. He looked like the Taylor of old I thought.

Karyn Hopkins

I was embarrassed. I was humiliated. I would do my grocery shopping at 3 in the morning. I would not go out during the daylight because I felt people were laughing at me, staring at me.

Tim Stowers

We looked at the history of Rhode Island football. In 107 years there have been 31 winning seasons. It seems like when we get past the homecoming game and daylight savings time our season kind of turns into the dark.

Frank Williams

He is never going to pass ahead. All he sees is daylight and he is going for what he knows.

Alan McCoy

With all due respect to our neighbor .. the flame is normally a pale blue, owing to its relative low temperature. In fact, during daylight hours it is often hard to see." ()

Harvey Brooks

We observe the same time all year. In Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, they want to be fully synchronized -- given that they are observing daylight saving time -- they want to be synchronized with the jurisdictions directly south of them that observe daylight saving time,