Positive atheism Quotes · Page 10

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

— Francis Bacon

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.

— Charles Darwin

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

— Douglas Adams

When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.

— Wendy Kaminer

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

— Michel de Montaigne

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.

— H. L. Mencken

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— H. L. Mencken

I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

— Luther Burbank

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

— Thomas Hobbes

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

— Edward Abbey

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He…

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author.…

— Taslima Nasrin

The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them…

— Winston Churchill

I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me…

— Gerald Kersh

The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to…

— Thomas Jefferson

We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas,…

— Maya Angelou

There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course…

— Eugenie Scott

And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't…

— Phil Ochs

This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that…

— Annie Besant

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate…

— Eric Hoffer

The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that…

— Max Stirner

I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what…

— Douglas Adams

It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She…

— Helen H. Gardener

We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence…

— Wei Jingsheng

The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine…

— Anonymous

The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to…

— Morris Sullivan

Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern…

— Giordano Bruno

That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active…

— Rodney Stark

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

— Henry David Thoreau

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

— Eric Hoffer

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

— Frank Zappa

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

— Jimmy Carter

The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.

— Jerry Falwell

The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

— William Shakespeare

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington