Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 34

• Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

  Lucretius

  Brother, Hate, Atheism

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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• Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.

  Lucretius

  Eye, Men, Dust

  Lucretius (2011). “On the Nature of Things”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.

  Lucretius

  Men, Long, Atheism

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• Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

  Lucretius

  Light, Darkness, Atheism

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• And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

  Lucretius

  Atheism, Life Is, Given

  'De Rerum Natura' bk. 3, l. 971

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• Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

  Lucretius

  Fall, Atheism, Atoms

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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• The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Enemy, Atheism, Church

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• With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Atheism, Doctrine, Philosopher

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• The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Religious, Errors, Atheism

  "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 60, 1843.

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• If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Atheism, Odd, Ifs

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Atheism, Demand, Patterns

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• Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Men, Practice, Atheism

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Ideas, Expectations, Atheism

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• Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and a precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment."

  James Madison

  Religious, Law, Land

  James Madison (1819). “The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819”, p.133

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• Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.

  James Madison

  Religious, Blood, Differences

  James Madison, Virginia. General assembly, 1785 (1828). “A memorial and remonstrance, on the religious rights of man; written in 1784-5, at the request of the religious society of Baptists in Virginia. ...”, p.9

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• Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Atheism, Rays, May

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.39, 谷月社

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• I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Christian, Atheism, Accepting

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• Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Past, Atheism, May

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• The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

  Karl Mannheim

  Men, Historical, Atheism

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• Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

  Marilyn Manson

  Atheism, Virtue

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• We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

  Marilyn Manson

  Police, Atheism, Christianity

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• I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Suicide, Religious

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• Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.

  Marilyn Manson

  Taken, Home, Men

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• I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.

  Marilyn Manson

  Song, Real, Media

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• The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, War, Teaching

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