Positive atheism Quotes · Page 12

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

— Omar Khayyam

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

— Marilyn Manson

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

— Quentin Crisp

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

— Richard Dawkins

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

— Voltaire

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— George W. Bush

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

— Victor J. Stenger

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which…

— Giordano Bruno

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who…

— George Eliot

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

— Taslima Nasrin

"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment.

— Robert M. Price

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

— Charles Bradlaugh

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

— Robert M. Lindner

We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are,…

— Lincoln Steffens

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it…

— Mark Twain

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make…

— Emily Dickinson

Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a…

— Steven Weinberg

The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who…

— William J. Brennan

The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands…

— John Galsworthy

Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed…

— Ed Buckner

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor…

— Charles Darwin

Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at…

— Thomas Jefferson

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature…

— Edward Kennedy

One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the…

— Isaac Asimov

The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no…

— David Friedrich Strauss

No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was…

— Richard P. Feynman

The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are…

— Alan Dershowitz

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

— Israel Zangwill

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

— Thomas Carlyle

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

— Brooks Atkinson

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

— Elbert Hubbard

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

— Jeremy Bentham

The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.

— Frank Zappa

The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.

— Bill Vaughan

It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

— William Shakespeare