Edmund Burke Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Mind, Religion

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

• We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

  Edmund Burke

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 30

• Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

  Edmund Burke

  Religious, Atheism, Zealous

  Speech, 18 February 1788, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 1, p. 104

• Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

  Edmund Burke

  Religious, Men, Animal

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 135.

• A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Names, Atheism

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

• Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Atheism, Superstitions

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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