"To think that the ruler of the universe……" — Dan Barker
"To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance."
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37 Quotes by Dan Barker
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You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need…
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Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward.…
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How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
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I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.
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You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
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I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs…
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There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental…
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If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true.…
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But…
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There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or…
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There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good…
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It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They…
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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in…
— Eric Bana
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
— Joe Biden
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
— Theodore Bikel
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness…
— Alain de Botton
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It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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