Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes - Page 5

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• I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.

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  Atheist, Growing Up, Believe

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• As I grew a little bit older and got interested in law, I read that Clarence Darrow didn't believe in the Bible either. So I read everything he had ever written, all of his trials, everything - to search out the philosophy of his disbelief.But I couldn't find it.

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  Philosophy, Believe, Law

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• There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church.

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  People, Church, Humanitarian

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• I can't deny that I was an intellectual prostitute along the way many, many times in college. I can remember one examination where they said. "Describe the Devil," and in order to get 12 points on that question one had to say that the Devil was red and had a forked tail and cloven hoofs and fangs and horns on his head. So I merrily wrote this answer down and got my 12 points. I always got straight hundreds in Bible study.

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  College, Order, Intellectual

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• I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a physical battle. I mean a man who would lay me, and when he was done, I'd say: "Oh, brother, I've been laid." Or if we had an argument, he would stand up and engage in intellectual combat and not go off and mope in the corner, or take reprisals, or go to drink.

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  Brother, Mean, Men

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• If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. I don't feel that I can sit in judgment on them, or that society can sit in judgment on them. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it.

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  Should Have, Long, Want

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• There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised. One of these is eating. Nobody's going to license me to do this. Another one is bodily disposals. I will defecate and urinate when I damn well please and as the spirit -and the physical necessity -moves me. And my sex life is peculiarly my own. I will engage in sexual activity with a consenting male any time and any place I damn well please.

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  Sex, Moving, Males

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• It doesn't seem to occur to men that woman might be a worthwhile end in herself, or to see to it that she has a proper sexual release. And, to him, sex appeal is directly proportional to the immensity of a woman's tits.

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  Sex, Men, Might

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• I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a good frolic in the sack, the kind who'll tear hell out of a thick steak, and yet who can go to the ballet with me and discuss Hegelian dialectic and know what the hell he's talking about.

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  Men, Talking, Giving

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• I want somebody, a men, who's whole and wholesome and has as much zest for living as I have. But I haven't found one who fills the bill; you can't hardly find them kind no more. And I know many women my size, psychologically and intellectually, who have the same problem.

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  Men, Zest, Want

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• Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.

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  Moving, Thinking, Order

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• If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American men feel threatened sexually unless they're taller than the female, more intellectual, better educated, better paid and higher placed statuswise in the business world. They've got to be the authority, the final word.

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  Men, Talking, America

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• Male say they're looking for a girl just like the girl who married dear old dad, but what they really want, and usually get, is an empty-headed little chick who's very young and very physical -and very submissive.

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  Girl, Dad, Males

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• As a matter of fact. I think I actually frighten men. I think I scare the hell out of them time after time.

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  Men, Thinking, Scare

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• Pope John XXIII was an amoeba of goodness in a sea of waste, mistakenly believing that the Holy See could or would really change in any fundamental way.He was a tragic figure, for he raised a false hope, cast a brief ray of light that was snuffed out when he died.

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  Believe, Sea, Light

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• Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

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  Dying, Legality, Preserves

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• You don't need a marriage license to live with someone, to have the security of a home, to rear any number of children, to have years of companionship; it's not illegal, but the moment you want to screw somebody, you have to get a license from the state to use your genital organs -or run the risk of being charged with any number of crimes carrying sentences up to and including death. So sex is really the only sensible reason for getting married.

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  Running, Sex, Children

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• I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.

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  Hate, Men, Female

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• An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy.

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  Atheist, Men, Heaven

  Murray v. Curlett, Petition for Relief, 1959.

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• Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.

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  Men, Acting, Wells

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Baseball, Opiates, Mass

  Attributed in "Psychology and contemporary affairs" by Nathaniel J. Ehrlich, (p. 78), 1972.

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• I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Insane, Feels

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• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

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  Church, Partnership, States

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1974). “Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook”, Tarcher

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