Quotes about atheism
atheism slave reason
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. Mark Twain
atheism literature reason
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. Mary Wollstonecraft
atheism pay debt
Death pays all debts. Michel de Montaigne
atheism virtue
Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue. Marilyn Manson
atheism conclusion greatest-atheist
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. Christopher Hitchens
atheism politics moral
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. Havelock Ellis
atheism discouraged theoretical
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life... Harry Emerson Fosdick
atheism life-is blindness
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself. George Santayana
atheism lasts died
My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith. G. Gordon Liddy
atheism taste becoming
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
atheism citizens crime
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. John F. Kennedy
atheism needs world
What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence. Thomas Aquinas
atheism wildfires
Atheism is spreading like wildfire. Ray Comfort
atheism consuming cycles
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete. Raoul Vaneigem
atheism doctrine too-much
I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one preacher well. I must therefore be contented to be an Unitarian by myself, although I know there are many around me who would become so, if once they could hear the questions fairly stated. Thomas Jefferson
atheism argument purity
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
atheism citizens tests
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.
atheism able physics
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect. Richard P. Feynman
atheism sun tomorrow
No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. Robert M. Pirsig
atheism matter responsible
Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God. Walter Martin
atheism positive-atheism
What can I hope when all is right? Voltaire
atheism screens repressed
Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion. Wilhelm Stekel
atheism today firsts
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed. Walter F. Mondale
atheism islam different
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
atheism looks satan
Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.
atheism
I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense. W. Somerset Maugham
atheism ineffable mystic
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.