Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 35

• So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Atheism, Natural

  John Stuart Mill, Charles W. Elliott, Patrick Hayden (2004). “On Liberty”, p.8, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religion, Atheism, Facts

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.452, OUP Oxford

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• It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

  John Stuart Mill

  Atheism, May

  John Stuart Mill (1874). “Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism”, p.73

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• Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Atheism, Today, Firsts

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• The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Queens, Atheism, President

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• Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Religious, Law, Practice

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• He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence.

  Daniel Coit Gilman

  Religious, Atheism, Belief

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• Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Christian, Simple, Men

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• It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Atheism, Sticks

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• Death pays all debts.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Atheism, Pay

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• Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Atheism, Disease, Mankind

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• There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

  Lucretia Mott

  Lying, Civilization, Organized Mind

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• Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use of this power we need more, not less, of the objective dispassionate scientific spirit. For our philosophical purposes we need more of its integrity and its basic humility, its respect at once for the fact and the mystery.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Wise, Integrity, Philosophical

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• The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Horse, Blood, Two

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• The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

  John Courtney Murray

  Religious, Atheism, Church

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• The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him a little kitten to play with. A couple of weeks later we found it on the porch with its neck wrung.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Couple, Children, Boys

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• We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Christian, Brother, Hero

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1972). “What on Earth Is an Atheist!”, Arno Press

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• Actually, I don't like Atheists very much - at least most of them ~ because they are not motivated to move into the community and attempt to correct the injustices which are everywhere apparent against them.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Moving, Community

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• Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Men, Honor, Religion

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• I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Atheist, Prayer, Believe

  "One Brave Woman vs. Religious Fundamentalism: An Interview With Taslima Nasrin". Free Inquiry interview, www.secularhumanism.org. December 1, 1998.

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• The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, Light, Years

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• There's a principle here and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all.

  Michael Newdow

  Heart, Justice For All, Hands

  "Daughter Barred From Pledge Hearing". www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2004.

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• This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in this nation and I think that's great and everybody should have the ability to worship as he or she sees fit. I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

  Michael Newdow

  Religious, Strong, Believe

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• I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision.

  Michael Newdow

  Thinking, Decision, Atheism

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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• Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. When atheists become the majority in this country, I don't think the theists are going to be glad to have "one nation under no God" inserted in the Pledge of Allegiance.

  Michael Newdow

  Country, Atheist, Thinking

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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