Atheism Quotes - Page 30

• I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies are conducted with sensitivity and respect. Reburying relics, in my view, does not help anyone go anywhere.

  Richard Leakey

  Believe, Views, Important

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• The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

  Richard Leakey

  Numbers, People, Environmental

  Interview, content.time.com. April 11, 1999.

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• Do not make gods in your own images.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Positive Atheism

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• Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Believe, Punishment, Soul

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• What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Believe, Ifs, I Believe

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• Do I believe? God only knows.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Believe, Knows, I Believe

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• There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Trying, Sides, Disputes

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• The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Atheist, Spirit, Positive Atheism

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• An error becomes an error when born as truth.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Errors, Born, Positive Atheism

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• Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Eye, Puritan, Figs

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• Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Guilt, Stones, Firsts

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• Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Blood, Devil, Doe

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• How many prison years in the years since Christ!

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Years, Prison, Christ

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• The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Mouths, Littles, Bigs

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Positive Atheism, Humans

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• Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Enlightening, Positive Atheism

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• Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Darkness, Burning, Stakes

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• You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Song, Play, Oppression

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• "Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Said, Young, Corpses

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• When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to question; it was impious to examine; it was impious to discriminate. On the other hand, it was visibly instinct with the supernatural. Miracles of every order and degree of magnitude were flashing forth incessantly from all its parts.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Hands, Order, Miracle

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.198

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• The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Civilization, Suffering

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• When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated; and, in the course of a few years, restrictive laws were enacted, both against the Jews and against the heretics.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Years, Law, Church

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.29

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• Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Catholic, Elbows, Arms

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• All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Miracle, Lasts, Proportion

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.158

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• Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Father, Writing, Church

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