Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 30

• Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.

  Sam Keen

  Support, Anxiety, Perception

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• Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.

  Sam Keen

  War, Historical, Enemy

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• If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

  Sam Keen

  Blood, Hands, Qualms About

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• This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Believe, Names, People

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• Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Strong, Choices, Dumb

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• If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Broken, Judging, Heaven

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• Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Strong, Voice, Atheism

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• Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life

  Maynard James Keenan

  Atheism

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• I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where people are deeply divided about whether it is... Americans are plainly and persistently divided about abortion and the fiat of government cannot settle the issue as a matter of conscience or of conduct.

  Edward Kennedy

  Religious, Believe, Government

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• If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Atheism, Church

  Greater Houston Ministerial Association Q & A, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit the candidates to a religious test is unfair enough - to apply it to the voters is divisive, degrading and wholly unwarranted.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Catholic, Mind

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• I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Atheism, President

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

  George F. Kennan

  People, Secret, Atheism

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• In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

  Johannes Kepler

  Philosophy, Atheism, Reason

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• I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.

  John F. Kerry

  Running, America, Atheism

  "Kerry: Bush's Vatican appeal 'inappropriate'". www.cnn.com. June 15, 2004.

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• Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Seductive, Promise, Victory

  "I Can Think of Life, and Nothing Else" by Cliff Walker, January 2002.

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• Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.

  Daniil Kharms

  Jesus, Fall, Atheism

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• Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dust, Two, Atheism

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• The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.

  Omar Khayyam

  Sleep, Rose, Atheism

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.186, University of Virginia Press

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• Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

  Omar Khayyam

  Atheism, Rewards, Fool

  Omar Khayyam (2015). “The Sufistic Quatrains”, p.52, Omar Khayyam

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• Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Atheism, Demand, Christianity

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• The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Religious, Atheism, Doubters

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• Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.

  Florence King

  Hero, Atheism, Trying

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• Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Teaching, Atheism, Examination

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• One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and the Establishment, Scientific Humanism is attempting to do just that.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Strong, Men, Mind

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