E. M. Forster Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  E. M. Forster

  Cheer, Democracies Have, Two

  Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

• If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Atheism, Trying

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

• Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

  E. M. Forster

  Mind, Atheism, Half

• There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

  E. M. Forster

  Lying, Suffering, Atheism

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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