Positive atheism Quotes · Page 43

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

— Voltaire

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

— Emily Dickinson

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that…

— Lev Shestov

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the…

— George Eliot

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

— John Adams

Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing…

— George W. Bush

As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many…

— Joseph Priestley

This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade.

— Jerry Falwell

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

— Edward Kennedy

And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal…

— Jack London

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is…

— John Shelby Spong

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only…

— Elbert Hubbard

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the…

— Richard Dawkins

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has…

— Norman Dorsen

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God.

— H. L. Mencken

Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to…

— James A.C. Brown

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to…

— Andre Gide

Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest…

— Steven Weinberg

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief,…

— James Russell Lowell

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have…

— Richard Dawkins

The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing…

— Albert Schweitzer