Atheist Quotes - Page 32

• I don't know if anybody from my tribe of atheists ever thanked [Barack Obama] for giving us a shout-out at your first inaugural, but you did mention non-believers. We appreciate it. Because we do feel like untouchables to a degree.

  Bill Maher

  Appreciate, Giving, Tribes

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

  Barack Obama

  Would Be, Persecution, Active

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society. Religion is the private affair of an individual...be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion. When I'm speaking, I'm speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.

  Akbar Ganji

  Expression, Ideas, Support

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the great things about America is that we have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, Jew, Muslim. It doesn't matter whether you're an evangelical or a Catholic or a moderate Jew. You're entitled to worship - or an agnostic or atheist.

  Karl Rove

  Christian, America, Catholic

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.

  Richard Dawkins

  Two, Intellectual, Goes On

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.

  Richard Dawkins

  Arrogant, Idiot, Sometimes

  Source: inters.org

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• I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

  Nat Hentoff

  Religious, People, Admire

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot of trouble - all of which combines into free expression.

  Nat Hentoff

  Passion, Expression, Jazz

  Source: www.rutherford.org

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• I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Prison

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an atheist that I, another negro inmate whom I'd heard in a discussion with white inmates and who was able to hold his own at all levels. And he impressed me with his knowledge, and I began to listen very carefully to some of the things he said.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Thinking, White

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me.

  Malcolm X

  Islam, Open Minded

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I think at least two of [my kids] - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not sure where they are these days, but at least two of them believe in some kind of higher force. The - another is an atheist and the other is still pondering.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Attitude, Fruit

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Men, Judging

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I might say that the debate between atheists and Christians is rather stale to me, because the Christians say, "You must be a Christian, or you must be a religious man, in order to be good," and the atheists will say, "It's beneath the dignity of a free man to bow his knee to a god, as if he were a sinner," or something like that.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Religious, Men

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• [Nikola Tesla] said he had no interest in the spiritual. He didn't believe in telepathy, didn't believe in any of that stuff, didn't believe in any religion, and he just thought all these people were being superstitious and wanted them to go away. And in that way he was very close to H.P. Lovecraft, who was almost a believing atheist.

  Paul Laffoley

  Spiritual, Believe, People

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He wasn't even an agnostic. That's exactly what the situation is, in other words, when you enter an eternal realm. You've got to know there is no religion.

  Paul Laffoley

  Years, Agnostic, Lovecraft

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• My wife and I have long discussions about [George] Carlin, and we refuse to accept that he died an atheist. It's just, confounding. When I talked to Kelly [George Carlin's daughter] about it, she said that George Carlin once took her at about 12 years old and said, "I've figured it out." And he says it in one of his specials sort of - he goes, "We're all energy and we're all connected. That goldfish you have, you, me, that boot laying in the street, we're all pieces of light to a giant electron.

  Jay Mohr

  Daughter, Light, Years

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I had a calling, this is what happened, I've explained the story many times. I've had my priest on, I've had atheists on. When I explain my conversion to atheists, my personal series of events, they go, "Oh, alright."

  Jay Mohr

  Events, Stories, Calling

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• It's better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Hypocrite, Outspoken

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• Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and celebrating what they did.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Agnostic, Celebrate, Altars

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

  Peter Kreeft

  Arrogant, Debate, Snobbish

  Source: brandonvogt.com

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• If there's one thing I've learned in the last 18+ years of interacting with over 60,000 people during my vegan lecture tour, it's that everyone is the same, whether they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, Republican, Democrat, independent, socialist, fascist, black, white, Asian, Latino, Native, pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gun or anti-gun.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Christian, Buddhist, Independent

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played so dominant a role in the preceding centuries that believers often cannot conceive how non-believers can muster sufficient commitment to their own lives to get out of bed each morning, let alone the ethical wherewithal to regard others as deserving of moral regard. Once one "comes out" as an atheist, these are the inquisitions to which one is often subjected.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Morning, Commitment, Facts

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• According to "matter-ism," matter is all that exists. The only things that are real are physical things in motion governed by natural law. That story starts, "In the beginning were the particles," or, as one famous person put it, "The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be." No God. No souls. No Heaven or Hell. No miracles. No transcendent morality. Just molecules in motion following the patterns of natural law. This is the story that most atheists, most "skeptics," most humanists, and most Marxists believe is true.

  Greg Koukl

  Real, Believe, Law

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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