Atheism Quote by Jeremy Bentham Download Open image “There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.” — Jeremy Bentham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Independent Morality Pestilence Positive atheism Religion States Zeal
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism. — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience. — Hans Denck Copy Share Image
The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“For the same sentiment of antipathy, if implicitly deferred to, may be, and very frequently is, productive of the very worst effects. Antipathy, therefore,… — Jeremy Bentham 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
