Atheist Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Law, Atheism, Death Penalty

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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

  Father, Science, Garden

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

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• Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Men, Atheism, Would Be

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.96, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

  Alan Watts

  Jesus, Men, Atheism

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal”, p.147, Vintage

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• For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religion, Atheism, Worship

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• We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

  Andy Rooney

  Cousin, Smart, Believe

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Sincerely, Andy Rooney”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Form, Impulse, Positive Atheism

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.3884, e-artnow

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• You are all stardust.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheism

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

  Albert Einstein

  Crush, Lying, Youth

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Relativity: The Special and the General Theory”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheism, Negative, Dogma

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• Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

  Gad Saad

  Offering, Understanding, Humanity

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• I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Attitude

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., September 28, 1949.

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• An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Doe, Certain, Existence

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.

  Charles Colson

  Play, Atheism, God Is Dead

  Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics”, p.198, Harper Collins

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• In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Running, Long, Reason

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Practice, Support, Wicked

  "On the Nature of the Gods". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.

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• What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

  Boris Pasternak

  Believe, Men, Atheism

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• I'm still an atheist, thank God.

  Luis Bunuel

  Religion, Thank God, Atheism

  "Luis Bunuel: athee grace a Dieu". Michele Manceaux, L'Express (p. 41), translated, May 12, 1960.

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• Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

  Cliff Stearns

  Appreciate, Historical, Religion

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• Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Suicide, Fear

  Isaac Asimov (1992). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sweet, Crazy, Mad

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.160, Dial Press

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• It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

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• As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.

  Francis Collins

  Life, God, Book

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• I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Logic, Very Sad

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• Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

  Lisa Bonet

  Parent, Atheism, Connections

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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