Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 10

• The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Clergy, Undesirable

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.479, Library of Alexandria

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• To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Past, Joy

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.412, Harvard University Press

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• All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

  Henry Clay

  Government, Atheism, Liberty

  Calvin Colton, Henry Clay (1857). “The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay: In Six Volumes”, p.223

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• As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Believe, People

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• Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.

  Luther Burbank

  Law, Justice, Unity

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• Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

  Luther Burbank

  Insanity, Theology

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• I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

  Luther Burbank

  Struggle, Race, Atheism

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• Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Different, Certificates

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.77, Library of Alexandria

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• Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

  John Selden

  Atheism, World, Littles

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.132

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• Never king dropped out of the clouds.

  John Selden

  Kings, Clouds, Atheism

  John Selden, Samuel Weller Singer, Edward FitzGerald (1860). “Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes”, p.219

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• What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Agree Upon, Agree

  Letter to John Adams, January 11, 1817.

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• Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Views, Speech

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Atheism: collected essays, 1943-1949”, Arno Pr

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• Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Adoption, Abortion, Atheism

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

  John Dewey

  Men, Medicine, Psychology

  The Public and Its Problems Ch. 5

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• Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

  Max Born

  Civilization, Atheism, Tradition

  1968 My Life and Views.

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• Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

  Frank Zappa

  Race, Tin Cans, Guy

  Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto, May 1969.

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• Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Atheism, Equal

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.522, VM eBooks

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• Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  Order, Support, Atheism

  Freethought Today (unidentified article/page), April 2000.

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• And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.

  Phil Ochs

  Lying, Laughing, Atheism

  Song: When I'm Gone, Album: Phil Ochs in Concert

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• If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Should Have, Honor, Special

  Charles Bradlaugh (1890). “Speeches”

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• Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Religious, Atheism, Trying

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• So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -- no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sacrifice, Feet, Long

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Writing, Names

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• [Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

  Richard Dawkins

  Medicine, Practice, Alternatives

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the bible position of woman briefly summed up.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fall, Men, Race

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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