Positive atheism Quotes by Emma Goldman

12 Positive atheism quotes by Emma Goldman

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Goldman’s 12 terse lines capture her fierce advocacy for freedom without divine crutch. Though brief, they echo her larger fight for social justice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among…

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

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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight…

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

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Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

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

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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The…

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More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of…

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Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

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The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

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The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned…

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