Positive atheism Quotes · Page 48

Information doesn't kill you.

— Frank Zappa

My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at…

— Margaret E. Knight

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

— Ruth Hurmence Green

Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things…

— George Carlin

Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we…

— Luther Burbank

We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a…

— Anthony Collins

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

— James Russell Lowell

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

— H. J Eckenrode

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws…

— Voltaire

Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

— Emily Dickinson

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

— Abraham Lincoln

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

— Anonymous

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

— Jonathan Swift

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the…

— Lucretius

I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity…

— Edwin Gaustad

The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no…

— David Friedrich Strauss

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

— James Randi

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

— Harold Lasswell

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any…

— George Santayana

Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most…

— Thomas Jefferson

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche