Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 16

• But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the bye, will you, or can you tell me, my dear Cunningham, why a religioso turn of mind has always a tendency to narrow and illiberalise the heart?

  Robert Burns

  Religious, Heart, Bye

  Robert Burns, Alan Bold (1993). “Rhymer Rab: an anthology of poems and prose”

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• Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Scotch, Drunk

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

  William S. Burroughs

  Feet, Long, Brain

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• I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hero, Thinking, Blow

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

  William S. Burroughs

  Islam, Atheism, Lines

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

  J. B. Bury

  Progress, Atheism, Together

  J. B. Bury (2014). “A History of Freedom of Thought (Illustrated)”, p.141, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose. And I'll take that a step further. You can be a patriot if you don't believe in the Almighty. You can honor your country and be as patriotic as your neighbor.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Jobs, Believe

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• Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.

  George W. Bush

  Long, Church, Atheism

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• We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Men, Important

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• We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

  George W. Bush

  Men, Atheism, Be Good

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• Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Religious, Atheism, Liberty

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• There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Forever, Atheism

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

  Albert Camus

  Atheism, Want, Found

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.40, Vintage

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• For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Men, Atheism

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• Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.

  Albert Camus

  Atheism, Laziness, Able

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• As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

  Albert Camus

  Political, Atheism, Valhalla

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• Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Struggle, Eye

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

  George Carlin

  Country, Believe, Men

  "Edgy comic George Carlin dies at 71" by Dean Goodman, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2008.

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• I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well.

  George Carlin

  Angel, Bullshit, Zombie

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• One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Kissing, Atheism

  Thomas Carlyle (1923). “Letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Stuart Mill, John Sterling and Robert Browning”

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• I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honor, Atheism, Facts

  Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 29, 1836

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• If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Atheism, World, Way

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• The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

  Jimmy Carter

  Prayer, Government, Atheism

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Stars

  "Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal". edition.cnn.com. January 30, 2004.

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• The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Christian, Mother, Children

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