Positive atheism Quotes · Page 13

The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

— Ruth Hurmence Green

I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying…

— Thomas Jefferson

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

— Lucretius

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.

— Luther Burbank

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin…

— Havelock Ellis

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Elbert Hubbard

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

— Francis Crick

As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front…

— Natalie Angier

There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty…

— Helen H. Gardener

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out…

— Isaac Newton

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

— John Dewey

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

— Robert M. Lindner

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

— Clarence Darrow

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under…

— Umberto Eco

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.…

— Raymond Aron

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

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

— Michel de Montaigne

Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the…

— George Santayana

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

— Thomas Hobbes

They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."

— Emily Dickinson