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• With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  God, Religious, Atheist

  "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

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• I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

  Frances Farmer

  Useless Things, Littles, Waste

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Diversity, Patriotism

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

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• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, School, Government

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clever, Men, Laughing

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin

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• It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

  William James

  Believe, Philosophical, Government

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.9, 谷月社

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• Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Mistake, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.71, Penguin

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• We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Trust, Believe

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.433

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• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  "God" (song) (1970)

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• Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Political, Religion, Politics

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Atheist, People, Relaxed

  "Daniel Radcliffe: a cool nerd" by Anita Singh, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 4, 2009.

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• The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

  Robert Reich

  Party, America, Way

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

  Pat Robertson

  Atheist, Independence, Cabinets

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• No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Atheist, Law, Death Penalty

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• It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

  Peter De Vries

  God, Fear, Order

  Mackerel Plaza ch. 1 (1958)

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• A cult is a religion with no political power.

  Tom Wolfe

  Religious, Philosophy, Power

  In Our Time ch. 2 (1980) See Feibleman 1

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• Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

  Israel Zangwill

  Christian, Religion, Scratches

  Children of the Ghetto bk. 2, ch. 6 (1892)

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• It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Religion, Facts

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• A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Religion, Process

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• Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Evil, Catholic

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, October 23, 1909.

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• Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  God, Religious, Atheist

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• I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Atheist

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• We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  "President Obama Quotes Carl Sagan at Rutgers: 'Embrace What is True Rather Than What Feels Good'" by Hemant Mehta, www.patheos.com. May 15, 2016.

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• So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Father, Science

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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• Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

  Jesse Ventura

  Fear, Numbers, People

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2013). “DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government”, p.209, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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