Atheism Quotes - Page 32

• With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Doctrine, Philosopher, Ancient

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• The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Religious, Errors, Stronger

  "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 60, 1843.

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• If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Odd, Positive Atheism, Ifs

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Demand, Patterns, Cowardice

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• Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Men, Practice, Rich

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Ideas, Expectations, Peculiar

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• Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and a precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment."

  James Madison

  Religious, Law, Land

  James Madison (1819). “The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819”, p.133

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• Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.

  James Madison

  Religious, Blood, Differences

  James Madison, Virginia. General assembly, 1785 (1828). “A memorial and remonstrance, on the religious rights of man; written in 1784-5, at the request of the religious society of Baptists in Virginia. ...”, p.9

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• Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Rays, May, Reason

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.39, 谷月社

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• I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Christian, Accepting, Positive Atheism

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• Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Past, May, Forget

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• The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

  Karl Mannheim

  Men, Historical, May

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• Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

  Marilyn Manson

  Virtue, Positive Atheism

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• We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

  Marilyn Manson

  Police, Christianity, States

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• I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Suicide, Religious

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• Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.

  Marilyn Manson

  Taken, Home, Men

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• I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.

  Marilyn Manson

  Song, Real, Media

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• From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Looks, Purpose, Moments

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.7, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Real, Lying, Men

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• Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Principles, Apes

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.23, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Men, Warfare

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Air, Soul, Doe

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.42, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wall, Hate, Hypocrite

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.67, 德威國際文化

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• Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Suspicion, Mischief

  Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Simple, Thinking, Sound

  Christopher Marlowe (1826). “The works of Christopher Marlowe”, p.294

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