Atheist Quotes - Page 16

• Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Spiritual, Religious

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• I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

  Kirk Cameron

  Atheism, Done, Foolish

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• I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.

  Michael Newdow

  Daughter, Atheism, Cases

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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• Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, People, Atheism

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Jan 16, 2014

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• We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Philosophy, War

  "Freedom From The Known" by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1969.

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• I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

  Isaac

  Atheism, Want, Waste

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• I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

  Joss Whedon

  Insightful, Lines, Devotion

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• I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Creating, Religion, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.

  George Carlin

  Ku Klux Klan, Doubt, Atheism

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• He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

  George Orwell

  God, Atheism, Doe

  Down and Out in Paris and London ch. 30 (1933)

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• With soap, baptism is a good thing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Baptism, Religion, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2079, Library of Alexandria

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• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Respect, Religious

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Men

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.328, Princeton University Press

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• Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

  Dan Barker

  Faith, Real, Believe

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• It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Creating, Religion, Atheism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1860). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.119

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• I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I'd like to add a little to that goodness.

  Daniel Dennett

  Art, Atheism, Add

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• Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Looks, Mood

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.

  Lisa Williams

  Religious, Missing, Trying

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• It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Atheism, Doe

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part IV, Chapter 7, p. 626, 1869.

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• Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

  Michael Novak

  Atheism, Sacred, Proof

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• Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Atheism, Would Be

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Simple, Atheism, Lasts

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.154, Baen Books

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• A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

  Dion Fortune

  Religious, Religion, Atheism

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• Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

  Denis Diderot

  Kings, Men, Thinking Man

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• The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Real, Mean

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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