Positive atheism Quotes · Page 7

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

— Mark Twain

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

— Lucretius

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

— James Madison

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

— James Randi

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his…

— Benjamin Franklin

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

— Giordano Bruno

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

— H. L. Mencken

What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

— Nel Noddings

Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?

— James Madison

But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and…

— Charles Darwin

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

It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot…

— Marjoe Gortner

Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the…

— Florence King

We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by…

— Lord Byron

Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor…

— William O. Douglas

The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the…

— Walter Lippmann

It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All…

— David Swing

Religion grows with the intelligence of man, but all religions of the past and probably all of the future will sooner or…

— Luther Burbank

The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them…

— James Monroe

In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype…

— Robert M. Price

Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons…

— Antony Flew

Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand…

— Steven Weinberg

What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the…

— Thomas Aquinas

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Luther Burbank

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

— John Keats

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

— Robert Browning

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

— Thomas Carlyle

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

— Lord Byron

Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?

— Frank Zappa

Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

— Lenny Bruce

I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.

— Margaret Sanger