Atheism Quote by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Download Open image “The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.” — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Cult Cult Men Establish Force Force Greatness Men Men Seek Partisanship Political Reasonable Reasonable Cult
Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive. — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I think cults never stop being interesting and I'm intrigued by how we all do a tiny bit of submitting to a larger group… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
