Positive atheism Quotes · Page 13

Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

— Dianne Feinstein

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

— Thomas Hobbes

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

— Auguste Comte

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

— Emile M. Cioran

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Thomas Jefferson

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the…

— Voltaire

The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and…

— Kenneth C. Davis

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

— Emma Goldman

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

— Martin Buber

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle…

— Mark Twain

But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof…

— Thomas Jefferson

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

— Paul Kurtz

The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during…

— Herbert Spencer

Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to…

— Joseph Leon Blau

Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon…

— Thomas Jefferson

Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are…

— Anthony Collins

Since 1787 the principle of freedom of religion has been attacked but never overthrown. Keeping education in the United States free of…

— Joseph Leon Blau

I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot…

— Emily Dickinson

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single…

— Henrik Ibsen

The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared…

— Emily Dickinson

A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no…

— Victor J. Stenger

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief…

— Mario Cuomo

Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that…

— James Randi

When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and…

— H. L. Mencken

Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a…

— Margaret Sanger

Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

— Thomas Moore

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

— E. M. Forster

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

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

— Edward Abbey

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

— Auguste Comte

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

— Voltaire

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

— George Bernard Shaw