Atheism Quote by Anonymous

“It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Created sick, and then commanded to be well.” This is one of the first, easiest, and most obvious of the satirical maxims that eventually…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty…

— Jane Austen

“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness that is…

— Edmund Burke

“The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, Bane of all genius,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“But alas, my dear child, we are the slaves of custom, the dupes of prejudice, and dare not stem the torrent of the opposing…

— Fanny Burney

“ We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity. ”

— Sorin Cerin

“Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed in my…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“O, to be a ruler of life-- not a slave, To meet life as a powerful conqueror, No fumes-- no ennui-- no more complaints…

— Walt Whitman

“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go into my study; and on the thresh-hold, I take off my everyday clothes,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

“Mankind twist and turn the rules of the Lord, to suit their own wickedness, when their devilish cunning has had too much time to…

— James Fenimore Cooper