Atheist Quotes - Page 18

• Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot?

  Sam Harris

  People, Cartoon, Twelve

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

  Thandie Newton

  Running, School, Kids

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• If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

  Michael Palin

  Men, Religion, Atheism

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• In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, People, Alchemist

  "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, 2006.

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• There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Feel Better, Thinking, Missing

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.150, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!

  Bill Hicks

  Religion, Atheism, Would Be

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• For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Promise, Littles, Investment

  "Lectures: Including His Letters on The Chinese God. Is Suicide a Sin? The Right to One's Life. Etc., Etc., Etc".

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

  Peter O'Toole

  Simple, Talking, Answers

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• Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

  James Madison

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  "Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments" (1785)

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• Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

  Frank Zappa

  Reality, Religion, Atheism

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• For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart - then no problem.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Heart, Exercise

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• When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Men, Doe

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• One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case, and never has been.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Faith Religion, Atheism, Puff

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Prayer, Godly

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• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

  James Madison

  Religious, Secular Society, Faith Religion

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Practice, Atheism

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• I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

  Gene Roddenberry

  People, Effort, Decision

  "In His Name". Book by E. Christopher Reyes, p. 39, 2010.

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• All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

  Stephen Hawking

  Way, Whim, Universe

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Break A Leg

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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• Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose heart, lose their morale. They will become such a shiftless, lazy, apathetic, lethargic people that you won't be able to get half of them to work. Many will not be motivated by anything.

  Shelton Smith

  Heart, People, Lazy

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• Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Religion, Atheism

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• "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing."
  "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D."
  "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Giving, Religion

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1979.

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• It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

  Thom Yorke

  May, Suspicion

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