Atheism Quotes - Page 11

• I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

  Henny Youngman

  Atheist, Holiday, Christmas Wishes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1932, Library of America

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• Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Wall

  Reply to Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, and Stephen S. Nelson (committee of the Danbury, Conn., Baptist Association), 1 Jan. 1802

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• Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

  Aristophanes

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  John Hookham Frere, Sir Bartle Frere, Aristophanes, Theognis (1872). “The Works of John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose”, p.70

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• I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover for the persistence of the individual in some spiritual form, it is necessary to operate under the provisional conclusion that there is no afterlife and then be ready to amend that if I find out otherwise.

  James Cameron

  Spiritual, Persistence, Data

  "The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron". Book by Rebecca Keegan, 2009.

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• If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational

  "Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

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• There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  God, Atheist, Heart

  "“No gods” solstice display returns for 7th year to Illinois Capitol". ffrf.org. December 4, 2015.

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• Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Doubt, Fool

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• There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life And Love, Fear, Religion

  Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898) vol. 2, preface

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• The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Atheist, Science, Religion

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• My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Thinking, Views

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  Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

  Epicurus

  Intelligent, Religion, Fear Of Death

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• Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Religion, Doctrine

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• Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Religious, Philosophical, Hands

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Atheist, Keys, Civilization

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• As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

  Protagoras

  Mean, Knowing, Religion

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• You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Spiritual, Atheist

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• There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Freedom, Men, Tyrants

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Truth, Freedom

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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• You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Atheist, Fear

  1932 Texts and Pretexts,'Amor Fati'.

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Bending Down, Differences

  Song: Heavenly Bank Account

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• I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Wisdom, Religious

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• When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Thinking, Despair

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Fear, Home

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

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