Atheism Quote by George Berkeley

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few…

— Samuel Butler

“It is their usual reaction; they employ not words and reasoned conversation or discourse to resolve problems, but the truncheon, the jackbooted foot, or…

— Daniel S. Fletcher

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear,…

— William Hazlitt

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

— Beatrice Webb

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be…

— Henry Van Dyke

The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians…

— Oscar Wilde

“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who…

— Karl Marx

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and…

— Bertrand Russell

“Consoler of our misery, religion is at the same time the most natural of our emotions. Unknown to us, all our physical sensations, all…

— Benjamin Constant

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

— Mary Augusta Ward

The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions…

— Anna Pavlova

“Then our minds go through an entire revolution. We are no more troubled by anger and hatred, no more bitten by envy and ambition,…

— Kaiten Nukariya