Positive atheism Quotes · Page 6

I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.

— Margaret Sanger

Some people do not eat cow meat. I do so, provided it's tender.

— Yajnavalkya

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

— Ruth Hurmence Green

The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

— Emily Dickinson

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

— Thomas Jefferson

We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.

— William J. Clinton

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

— Horace Greeley

The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

— J. B. Bury

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too…

— Frank Zappa

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

— George Santayana

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

— Lucretius

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou…

— James Russell Lowell

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

— Theodore Dreiser

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something…

— George Bernard Shaw

I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and…

— Jerry Falwell

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end…

— Samuel Beckett

There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel…

— John Quincy Adams

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I…

— George Bernard Shaw

And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty…

— James Madison

It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The…

— Margaret E. Knight

Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances…

— H. G. Wells

Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests.…

— Alan Dershowitz

The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world…

— Chapman Cohen

The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what…

— Paul Watzlawick

The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter,…

— George H. Smith

Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold…

— Florence King

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

— Mark Twain

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

— Elbert Hubbard

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

— Sidney Hook

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

— Philip James Bailey

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

— John Dryden

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

— Ivan Turgenev

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec