Ancient Quote by Gustave Le Bon Download Open image “If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.” — Gustave Le Bon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Atheism Atheist Ifs Religion Spread
“Were it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant ardor of a religious sentiment, and in… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“Atheism has become not so much a matter of abandoning religion as the vigorous imposition of an entirely new religion. ” — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far and wide… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity. — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“To lose time in the manufacture of cut-and-dried constitutions is, in consequence, a puerile task, the useless labour of an ignorant rhetorician. Necessity and… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it? — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“If one destroyed in museums and libraries, if one hurled down on the flagstones before the churches all the works and all the monuments… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.” — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“Expressions such as infamous capital, vile exploiters, the admirable working man, the socialisation of wealth, &c., always produce the same effect, although already somewhat… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
