Rage Quotes - Page 6

• Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

  Isaac Asimov

  Fear, Atheism, Advantage

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”

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• There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fear, Cutting, Men

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• What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

  Heraclitus

  Teacher, Fear, Atheism

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• I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Heart, Atheism

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.177, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Passion, People

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Thinking, People

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• Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Fear, Inevitable Death, Atheism

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• When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

  Edward Abbey

  Fear, Common Sense, Atheism

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fear, Atheism, Outsiders

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”

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• Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Effectiveness, Challenges

  George Orwell (1987). “Animal farm: a fairy story”, Harvill Secker

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• The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.

  Gilbert Highet

  Fear, Believe, Thinking

  Gilbert Highet (1954). “Man's Unconquerable Mind”, p.57, Columbia University Press

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• ...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

  Lucretius

  Fear, Space, People

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

  Lucretius

  Fear, Atheism, Creation

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Fear, Hands

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Fear, People

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• To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.

  Denis Diderot

  Pain, Fear, Ignorance

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• There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Powerful, Fear

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• Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Atheism, Environment

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “An Outline of Philosophy”, p.31, Routledge

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• The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Military, Historical

  Adolf Hitler, General Press (2016). “Mein Kampf: (My Struggle)”, p.95, GENERAL PRESS

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• The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Fear, Creating, Anxiety

  "Best of the Century" by Albert Ellis, www.psychologytoday.com. November 1, 1999.

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• ... reason accepts no commandments.

  Ayn Rand

  Fear, Atheism, Reason

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.103, Penguin

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• People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Fear, People, Atheism

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• No one holds command over me.
  No Man. No God.
  No King. No Prince.
  What is a claim of age?
  For ones who are immortal
  What is a claim of power?
  For ones who defy death
  Call your damnable hunt.
  And we shall see
  Whom I drag screaming to hell with me.

  Unknown

  Fear, Men, Atheism

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• I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.

  Charlton Heston

  Fear, Believe, Heart

  "Truth And Consequences". Speech to the Yale University Political Union, www.varmintal.com. April 16, 1999.

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• Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fear, Men, Atheism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.54, Knopf

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