Atheist Quotes - Page 36

• It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christmas, Holiday, Cards

  "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dream, Believe, Existence

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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• If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

  Penn Jillette

  Children, Unconditional Love, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

  Penn Jillette

  Christian, People, Answers

  "Penn Jillette on the joys of atheism". Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. September 4, 2011.

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• You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody.

  Penn Jillette

  Religious, Liars, Lying

  "Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election" by Daniel Honan, bigthink.com.

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• My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Years, Church

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• Think for yourself and question authority.

  Timothy Leary

  Love, Life, Spiritual

  Timothy Leary's track on Audio album "Sound Bites from the Counter Culture", 1989.

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• I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don't believe there's a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.

  Alan Lightman

  Spiritual, Believe, Force

  "Reviewing Mr g: Physicist-turned-novelist Alan Lightman meets God at the intersection of science and religion". Interview With Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. February 12, 2012.

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• Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Men, Needs

  "Is There A God?" by Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2002.

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  Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Family Practice" by Leigh Roche, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Ignorance, Thinking, Religion

  The Jew of Malta prologue (ca. 1592)

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• I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

  George R. R. Martin

  Catholic, Agnostic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

  Karl Marx

  Mind, Deals, Fetish

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• The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, People, Atheism

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• The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.

  Josh McDowell

  Believe, Kids, People

  "Apologist Josh McDowell: Internet the Greatest Threat to Christians" by Anugrah Kumar, www.christianpost.com. July 16, 2011.

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• Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

  Ian Mcewan

  Believe, Moral, Moments

  Interview with Helen Whitney, www.pbs.org. April 2002.

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• In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

  Jon Meacham

  Christian, Fighting, Order

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• I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Struggle, Power

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.294, Vintage

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• At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Science

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.47, Penguin

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• Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Ideas, Atheism, Misery

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Prayer, Men

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• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Christian, Fun, Humorous

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• When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

  Peter O'Toole

  Religious, Talking, Religion

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• I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

  Michel Onfray

  Philosophy, Writing, Views

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