Atheist Quotes - Page 9

• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Nature, Believe

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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• I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Hypocrite, Atheism

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• An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

  Studs Terkel

  Belief, Agnostic, Cowardly

  Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Reality, Religion

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 16, 1888.

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• You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it.  In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

  Jacque Fresco

  Hope, Good Life, Religion

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• The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Government, Self

  TV Series "The 700 Club", www.imdb.com. (1966- ).

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• Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Strong, Philosophy, Long

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• Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Thinking, Religion

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• All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

  Matthew Arnold

  Religious, Biblical, Miracle

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• From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

  Edward Abbey

  Positive, Men, Views

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

  Penn Jillette

  Character, Atheism, Events

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• We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stupid, Selfish, Mean

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• Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family.

  Stephen Colbert

  Religious, Jesus, Gay

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• I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

  Douglas Adams

  Intelligent, People, Interesting

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

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• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life And Love, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Thinking, Atheism, Pope

  "A Sermon for the West". Oriana Fallaci's address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

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• I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? I read the King James Bible, as all English writers should. And when I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

  Mark Haddon

  Religious, Hymns, Atheism

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

  Howard Stern

  Thinking, Rocks, White

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• Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Philosophy, Stupid, Believe

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

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• Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

  Mark Twain

  Prayer, Book, Beer

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• I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Ignorance

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Wisdom, Truth

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Apr 19, 2016

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• It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Important, Atheism

  Telephone Remarks to a Group of Boy Scouts: "What it Means to Be a Boy Scout", July 25, 1924.

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• To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

  Ravi Zacharias

  Atheism, Belief, Infinite

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 16, 2013

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• Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Morning, Sunday

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

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