Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucretius

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Lucretius

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

Lucretius

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

Marquis de Sade

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

Mark Twain

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Michel de Montaigne

Death pays all debts.

Marilyn Manson

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

Christopher Hitchens

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

Havelock Ellis

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life...

George Santayana

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

G. Gordon Liddy

My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

Joseph Addison

Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.

Mahatma Gandhi

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

Emile Zola

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

Emile M. Cioran

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

Emily Dickinson

The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

Emily Dickinson

Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

Emily Dickinson

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

Emily Dickinson

If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now

Emily Dickinson

Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.

Emily Dickinson

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

Henry Steele Commager

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

Henrik Ibsen

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

Heinrich Heine

Atheism is the last word of theism

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Os Guinness

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

Orlando Bloom

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Omar Khayyam

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

Oliver Tambo

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.