Atheism Quotes by Emma Goldman

The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and…

— Emma Goldman

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

— Emma Goldman

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea…

— Emma Goldman

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done…

— Emma Goldman

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working…

— Emma Goldman

It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting…

— Emma Goldman

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend…

— Emma Goldman

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the…

— Emma Goldman

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people…

— Emma Goldman

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an…

— Emma Goldman

I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was…

— Emma Goldman

The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do…

— Emma Goldman

Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of…

— Emma Goldman

Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it…

— Emma Goldman

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments…

— Emma Goldman

The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race…

— Emma Goldman

“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine…

— Emma Goldman

Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to…

— Emma Goldman

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their…

— Emma Goldman